Painfully Literal Playful host: "Couldn’t you manage one more eclair?” Serious Little Boy: "No, fanks, Ive no more room." Playful host: “If I picked you up by the heels and shook you, would that help?”

(Full Caption) Painfully Literal

Playful host: "Couldn’t you manage one more eclair?”

Serious Little Boy: "No, fanks, Ive no more room."

Playful host:  “If I picked you up by the heels and shook you, would that help?”

Serious Little Boy: (after deep tought). "No, fanks, that would make the space at the wrong end.” 

Children's Party eclair original cartoon artwork

Size 28cm x 23cm

Medium Pen and ink on artboard

Publication Punch

Published 23 February 1921