Such things are, That such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now Redfern This would be one of

This would be one of his greatest games ever

with school children playing

' Text is from the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius

'Picus niger maximus capite rubro'

with handwritten annotation 'an eel'

Such things are, That such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now Redfern This would be one of'Such things are, That such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now', 1787. A satire on the unflattering fashions of the day. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).