Clearing the Course!', July 7 Yoko Ono A woman and a man

A woman and a man in military uniform stand beside the car

'The head ache'

punning on the word 'wood'

A crowd with a foppish couple in the front can be seen issuing from a chapel on the right and a house with a sign of 'The Good Woman' is on the left

A car waits at the start of the event

Clearing the Course!', July 7 Yoko Ono A woman and a man'Clearing the Course!', July 7, 1888. William Henry Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, and his Conservative colleague, Charles Ritchie, attempt to steer the Ship of Government across crowded waters. The little boats represent all the pending government business of the time, but, one by one, they are being sunk under the weight of the government vessel. From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 7, 1888.