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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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This is a good example of something I enjoy from the Briggs cartoons. There’s so much dialect and manners in them from another time, such as “Datter” and “it’s all holler”. I find it hard to estimate whether the first readers of it would have had that reaction or just glossed over it.Report