A quiet hundred without the police interfering!

by Mr Punch's Golf Stories

Antique golfing cartoon woodcut c1910. Police... the bag?

Policeman. "Where did you get that bag?"
Bill Sykes (indignantly). "There you are! Nice thing, in a free country, that a man can't have a quiet hundred up without the police interfering!"

Original woodcut from a sketch for the Punch Library of Humour published in London c1910 with later hand-tinting. Mr Punch's Golf Stories 'Told by His Merry Men' were intended as after-dinner stories. 

In good condition, this small page measures 18.5 x 13cm (7 3/8 x 5 inches). It is mounted between antique-whte conservation ragmat, and covered with cellophane for protection and presentation, ready for framing. The image window measures 130 x 95mm (5 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). The external mount for frame is 250 x 215mm (9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches).