Reversing the Proverb bald Busy street scene with cattle

Busy street scene with cattle

View of a building in Lombard Street

I tell you

walk within the interior of the church

Reversing the Proverb bald Busy street scene with cattle'Reversing the Proverb', 1864. The Oyster where it ought to be, And Shell and Shell the Lawyer's Fee. Here, the plaintiff whose case is settled is walking away with the oyster, and the lawyer and barrister get the shells. Punch makes the point that usually it was the other way round. This cartoon may be satirising the length of the average Chancery case during the mid Victorian period. Some of these cases might last for decades, and people joined in