How the Fleet Comes to its Moorings

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How the Fleet Comes to its Moorings
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How the Fleet Comes to its Moorings

Datec. 1920
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 211 x 344 mm. (8 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Plate: 102 x 221 mm. (4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Eunice K. Lipkowitz, Washington, D.C.
Object number1993.8
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Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Run away, Moellon, there comes the guard, another one of these show-offs. Just because we don’t have 4 sous for the bath we cannot wash ourselves... get lost..... It’s just not right!…
Run away, Moellon, there comes the guard, another one of these show-offs. Just because we don’t have 4 sous for the bath we cannot wash ourselves... get lost..... It’s just not right!…
1839
Image Not Available for How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?
How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?
2000
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire, business agent. Yesterday I made a mistake when I said that your business is in good shape. It's detestable. The government owes you five hundred thousand francs, it's true, but the debt hasn't been recognized, there's a forfeiture today, you won't have a penny. However, come to think of it, there's Mr. de St. Bertrand, a rich capitalist, an imbecile, sell him your interests for a hundred crowns, that'll be a splendid deal... (aside) and not expensive.
Robert Macaire, business agent. Yesterday I made a mistake when I said that your business is in good shape. It's detestable. The government owes you five hundred thousand francs, it's true, but the debt hasn't been recognized, there's a forfeiture today, you won't have a penny. However, come to think of it, there's Mr. de St. Bertrand, a rich capitalist, an imbecile, sell him your interests for a hundred crowns, that'll be a splendid deal... (aside) and not expensive.
1836
Image Not Available for Come on you scoundrel, come on! - Just you wait, you crook! - Oh come on Alfred, after all you know each other already for some twenty years! When you are friends, it's different than when you are not friends.
Come on you scoundrel, come on! - Just you wait, you crook! - Oh come on Alfred, after all you know each other already for some twenty years! When you are friends, it's different than when you are not friends.
1874
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire business agent. - By the devil! It's really admirable of you to break your back to pay off your debts, my good chap, wipe them out at once! - But how? - Good heavens! Bring me your books, I'll put them in order, it's my specialty, we'll settle for a few liabilities, a large number of assets, we'll assemble your creditors, we'll offer five percent to be paid over ten years, you won't give them anything during the ten years, in ten years' time you'll start again, your creditors will be dead, the debts forgotten and nobody will say a word about it.
Robert Macaire business agent. - By the devil! It's really admirable of you to break your back to pay off your debts, my good chap, wipe them out at once! - But how? - Good heavens! Bring me your books, I'll put them in order, it's my specialty, we'll settle for a few liabilities, a large number of assets, we'll assemble your creditors, we'll offer five percent to be paid over ten years, you won't give them anything during the ten years, in ten years' time you'll start again, your creditors will be dead, the debts forgotten and nobody will say a word about it.
1837
Image Not Available for It’s important for a man to know how to swim. He is not doing so badly for a start. You could think it’s a fish, at least while he is attached to the cord. But he’ll learn it… he is still young!
It’s important for a man to know how to swim. He is not doing so badly for a start. You could think it’s a fish, at least while he is attached to the cord. But he’ll learn it… he is still young!
1839
Image Not Available for The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
1838
Image Not Available for The Jayotype. - Mr. Jay: The gentleman is married? - The gentleman: Certainly, but how the devil did you know that? - Mr. Jay: Oh, its that this instrument is perfect, that no curve of the head, no bump on the forehead can escape it. - The gentleman: How ingenious!
The Jayotype. - Mr. Jay: The gentleman is married? - The gentleman: Certainly, but how the devil did you know that? - Mr. Jay: Oh, its that this instrument is perfect, that no curve of the head, no bump on the forehead can escape it. - The gentleman: How ingenious!
1842
Image Not Available for Porcelain Collectors. - Come on, Adelaide.... be reasonable... it's already one o'clock and time to go to bed! - Adolphe, leave me alone... I want to admire my oeuvre a bit longer... the candlelight makes it looks a hundred times more beautiful.
Porcelain Collectors. - Come on, Adelaide.... be reasonable... it's already one o'clock and time to go to bed! - Adolphe, leave me alone... I want to admire my oeuvre a bit longer... the candlelight makes it looks a hundred times more beautiful.
1855
Image Not Available for Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday, I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! - You will have to come with me... it's the law! - But marriage is also a law!
Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday, I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! - You will have to come with me... it's the law! - But marriage is also a law!
1839
Image Not Available for Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday, I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! - You will have to come with me... it's the law! - But marriage is also a law!
Listen to me policeman! I just got married yesterday, I returned from my wedding and I am going to bed! - You will have to come with me... it's the law! - But marriage is also a law!
1839
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire, salesman in Bibles. - (Bertrand): The subscribers claim that we are swindlers, thieves... I mean purloiners, and they are kicking... er, I mean, turning us out. - (Robert): What expressions to use, you rascal... you must address me more decently or I kick... er, I mean push you out of the door. It's you highfaluting manner, your high pitched twaddle, that riles the subscribers. Stop that! If they throw you out of the door, go back through the rear window... if they slap your face, turn your other cheek... but don't you come back here without subscriptions, or I ... well, never mind!
Robert Macaire, salesman in Bibles. - (Bertrand): The subscribers claim that we are swindlers, thieves... I mean purloiners, and they are kicking... er, I mean, turning us out. - (Robert): What expressions to use, you rascal... you must address me more decently or I kick... er, I mean push you out of the door. It's you highfaluting manner, your high pitched twaddle, that riles the subscribers. Stop that! If they throw you out of the door, go back through the rear window... if they slap your face, turn your other cheek... but don't you come back here without subscriptions, or I ... well, never mind!
1838