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UNIVERSITY OF N.C AT CHAPEL HILL 
 
 10001335538 
 
 The Bottle 
 
 George Cruikshank 
 
First Edition, June, 1905. 
 Reprinted, March, 1906. 
 
The Bottle ^"^ ^"^^^ 
 
 AND 
 
 The Drunkard's Children 
 
 IN SIXTEEN PLATES DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY 
 GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 
 
 GOWANP & GRAY, L-d., 
 
 35 Leickster Square, London, W.C. 
 
 58 Cadogan Street, Glasgow 
 
 1906 
 
The illustrations tn the present volume are reproduced in reduced facsimile from 
 the ^rst editions, which were published in large folio sise in 1847 and 1848 and 
 had a very great vogue. 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE 1 
 
 THE BOTTLE IS BROUGHT OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME: 
 THE HUSBAND INDUCES HIS WIFE "JUST TO TAKE 
 A DROP" 
 
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 
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THE BOTTLE. PLATE II 
 
 HE IS DISCHARGED FROM HIS EMPLOYMENT FOR 
 DRUNKENNESS: THEY PANVN THEIR CLOTHES TO 
 SUPPLY THE BOTTLE 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE III 
 
 AN EXECUTION SWEEPS OFF THE GREATER PART OF 
 THEIR FURNITURE: THEY COMFORT THEMSELVES WITH 
 THE BOTTLE 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE IV 
 
 UNABLE TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT, THEY ARE DRIVEN 
 BY POVERTY INTO THE STREETS TO BEG, AND BY 
 THIS MEANS THEY STILL SUPPLY THE BOTTLE 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE V 
 
 COLD, MISERY, AND WANT, DESTROY THEIR YOUNGEST 
 CHILD: THEY CONSOLE THEMSELVES WITH THE 
 BOTTLE 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE VI 
 
 FEARFUL QUARRELS, AND BRUTAL VIOLENCE, ARE THE 
 NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE FREQUENT USE OF 
 THE BOTTLE 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE VII 
 
 THE HUSBAND, IN A STATE OF FURIOUS DRUNKEN- 
 NESS, KILLS HIS WIFE WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF 
 ALL THEIR MISERY • 
 
THE BOTTLE. PLATE VIII 
 
 THE BOTTLE HAS DONE ITS WORK-IT HAS DESTROYED 
 THE INFANT AND THE MOTHER, IT HAS BROUGHT 
 THE SON AND THE DAUGHTER TO VICE AND TO THE 
 STREETS, AND HAS LEFT THE FATHER A HOPELESS 
 BIANIAC 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE I 
 
 NEGLECTED BY THEIR PARENTS, EDUCATED ONLY IN 
 THE STREETS, AND FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF 
 WRETCHES WHO LIVE UPON THE VICES OF OTHERS, 
 THEY ARE LED TO THE GIN-SHOP, TO DRINK AT THAT 
 FOUNTAIN WHICH NOURISHES EVERY SPECIES OF 
 CRIME 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE II 
 
 BETWEEN THE FINE FLARING GIN-PALACE AND THE 
 LOW DIRTY BEER-SHOP, THE BOY-THIEF SQUANDERS 
 AND GAMBLES AWAY HIS ILL-GOTTEN GAINS 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE HI 
 
 FROM THE GIN-SHOP TO THE DANCING-ROOMS, FROM 
 
 THE DANCING-ROOMS TO THE GIN-SHOP, THE POOR 
 
 GIRL IS DRIVEN ON IN THAT COURSE WHICH ENDS 
 IN MISERY 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE IV 
 
 URGED ON BY HIS RUFFIAN COMPANIONS, AND EXCITED 
 BY DRINK, HE COMMITS A DESPERATE ROBBERY.— HE 
 IS TAKEN BY THE POLICE AT A THREE-PENNY LODGING 
 HOUSE 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE V 
 
 FROM THE BAR OF THE GIN-SHOP TO THE CAR OF 
 THE OLD BAILEY IT IS BUT ONE STEP 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE VI 
 
 THE DRUNKARD'S SON IS SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTA- 
 TION FOR LIFE; THE DAUGHTER, SUSPECTED OF PAR- 
 TICIPATION IN THE ROBBERY, IS ACQUITTED. THE 
 BROTHER AND SISTER PART FOR EVER IN THIS WORLD 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE VH 
 
 EARLY DISSIPATION HAS DESTROYED THE NEGLECTED 
 BOY.— THE WRETCHED CONVICT DROOPS, AND DIES 
 
THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. PLATE VHI 
 
 THE MANIAC FATHER AND THE CONVICT BROTHER 
 ARE GONE.— THE POOR GIRL, HOMELESS, FRIENDLESS, 
 DESERTED, DESTITUTE, AND GIN-MAD, COMMITS SELF- 
 MURDER 
 
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