I'm so excited that I found the complete digital version of the Harper's Young People magazine I bought a few weekends back, now while I'm flipping though reading at night I take notes of engravings I think are interesting and then find their digital counterpart. So here are a few of my favorites so far.. I'm starting from January and working my way to the end of the year so be prepared for a flood of images in the future!
this kitten engraving is the best. if you can't read the poem it says:
Oh, Pussina White was as nice a young puss
As ever reposed on a mat,
But, like all of her mice loving kindred, she
Was a very inquisitive cat-
Me-ow!--
A very inquisitive cat.
Through this fault it was that a sad fate she met;
For one summer morn on the ground
Something burning and smoking she saw, and at once
With her paw began rolling it round--
Me-ow!!--
With her paw began rolling it round.
'Twas a big fire-cracker, and soon it went off,
And into small pieces it flew,
And that was the last of young Pussina White,
For that poor little cat went off too--
Me-ow!!!--
That poor little cat went off too.
and if you can't tell what the engraving is under the poem, well, that's the exploding kitten!
how deliciously morbid...
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