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English: Illustration for "Mr. Lorquison's Story." The man on the right played a joke on the gardener on the left, sending him herring roe he swore was exotic seeds; the gardener turned the joke around by showing him the red herrings that "sprouted" from the "seeds"
Wood engraving in Once a Week, volume 2, page 458.
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Source Internet Archive
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Charles Keene  (1823–1891)  wikidata:Q943757 s:en:Author:Charles Samuel Keene
 
Charles Keene
Alternative names
Charles Samuel Keene
Description English artist and illustrator
illustrator for Punch
Date of birth/death 10 August 1823 Edit this at Wikidata 4 January 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hornsey London
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creator QS:P170,Q943757

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The joke of the red herrings

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12 May 1860Gregorian

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