The rogue caught [graphic] : These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it / M.H.T.

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The rogue caught [graphic] : These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it / M.H.T.

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Item No: pdcp00025
Title: The rogue caught [graphic] : These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it / M.H.T.
Media Type: Lithographs
Source: Print and Picture Collection
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Accompanied by text titled "A Common Snare" moralizing about the tempation to do wrong is one of the "snares of the Wicked One" that will lead one to ruin. "Fear God and you need fear nothing else."


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Depicts a grocery clerk, in his apron, angrily grabbing a boy outside of his "Temperance Grocery" store that contains a broken window. One of the boy's mischievious friends holds his knee in pain as the other flees from him and the clerk. Two girls depart from the store entrance behind the hurt boy. Rows of merchandise line the window of the store.


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Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union


Notes:

Issued in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853).


Creation Year: ca. 1849
Creator Name: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897 - Artist
American Sunday-School Union - Publisher

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