My Old Friend Homer Zborowski Lisa Kay says goodbye to

Lisa Kay says goodbye to Pip her pet white duck

pictured signing autographs during his visit to Birmingham

c1823-1902

a pensioner

My Old Friend Homer Zborowski Lisa Kay says goodbye toMy Old Friend Homer, 1872. Mr Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister, was known to read Homer regularly, and here, the ghost of the great man has come to ask Gladstone how he could allow his authority to be usurped by the masses. This relates to the outbreak of a number of strikes during the year. These included bakers, carpenters, the Metropolitan Police and London's gas workers. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 14, 1872.