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First Day of Oysters

A thin woman seated on a settee screams as a horde of demons haul on both ends of a rope wound three times round her waist

People look at the exhibits

The Union representative in the centre is told that

Reversing the Proverb mb-width 2691 First Day of Oysters'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