File:The American Adventures of Marmaduke Squeezledene, Baronet (number 6).jpg

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English: in 1904, newspaper cartoonist Claude Shafer illustrated (and maybe wrote?) a series of humorous vignettes about the fictitious "Marmaduke Squeezledene", a baronet visiting America from the United Kingdom. There were 10 entries in the series, of which this is the sixth.
  • Text: I always wanted to meet the noble red man, don't you know. I have always much admired his virtues and stoical though romantic temperament, as described in books, and longed to hear him lift his sonorous voice in poetic eloquence. I found quite a colony of Indians near a large city in a park - admission 15 cents, children, three for a quarter. As I had watched in vain to encounter a few chiefs, squaws and pappooses on the cars or in the hotels and barbershops, I was constrained to visit these, although it is a shame that they are kept in captivity.
"Are these bad Indians?" I asked a man at the gate, "that you keep them confined?"
"No, they are not bad," he said; "on the other hand, none of them are strictly good, in view of the fact that the coroner hasn't been called for any of them."
This remark puzzled me greatly.
I shall write to the Times Biology and Colonial Curiosities editor to see if he can explain it.
"How?" I said genially to a magnificent brave I met in the grounds. He maintained a gloomy silence, being engaged no doubt, in musing over the departed glories of his race and of his ancestral tepee on the mossy banks of the Connecticut river.
"Is the great chief thinking of the happy hunting grounds?" I ventured sympathetically.
"No, buddy; I'm just wondering if you had a spare Turkish cigarette in your jeans. I left mine on the piano."
I shall CERTAINLY write to the Times about this.
Marmaduke Squeezledeane, Bart.
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-06-14/ed-1/seq-4/ (The Tacoma Times)
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Claude Shafer  (1878–1962)  wikidata:Q35860798
 
Claude Shafer
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Claude Schafer / Shaf
Description American cartoonist
Date of birth/death 7 January 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 24 May 1962 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Marietta
Work period 1901 Edit this at Wikidata–1956 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q35860798
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