Hodge's Explanation of a Hundred Magistrates

Thomas Rowlandson British
 Publisher Thomas Tegg British

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Hodge, at right wearing a smock, has been brought before three justices in wigs at left. One of the justices says, "How dare you Fellow to say it is unfair to bring you before one hundred Magistrates when you see there are but three of us!" Hodge responds, "Why please your Worship you maun know—when I went to school, they Taught I that a one and two O's stood for a hundred—so do you see your Worship be One and the other two be Cyphers!"

Hodge's Explanation of a Hundred Magistrates, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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