Caption continues: Mamma. "What is baby crying for, Maggie?" Maggie. "I don't know." Mamma. "And what are you looking so indignant about?" Maggie. "That nasty, greedy dog's been and took and eaten my 'Punge-Take!" Mamma. "Why, I saw you eating a sponge-cake a minute ago!" Maggie. "O - that was baby's!"
Title from published caption.
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch, Feb. 18, 1871, p. 66.
Cartoon shows a little girl standing by a bed with her thumb in her mouth; a little dog sits on its haunches in the foreground and the girl's mother leans over the bed where a baby lies crying.