Dr. Birch and His Young Friends Size:M: 60 x 45cm 'Catching an elephant'

'Catching an elephant'

View of the school with children playing in front

and figures walking in the courtyard

14th February 1984

This was in the latest attempt to achieve parliamentary reform

Dr. Birch and His Young Friends Size:M: 60 x 45cm 'Catching an elephant''Dr. Birch and His Young Friends', 1880. Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal Home Secretary, prepares a birch labelled Juvenile Offenders Act. On the other side of the fence are a crowd of urchins enjoying themselves in different ways. Some are plaguing officialdom in the shape of a beadle. Others hurl rocks at a passing train. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 2, 1880.