"Bigger Pedestal," cartoon, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, December 15, 1866

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"Ha! ha! Sire, I stand higher than you now. I have made myself a bigger pedestal with my needle-gun, ha!" "Oui, c'est vrai. But wait till my new breech-loaders are ready, then I sall kill many more than you and be a taller monarch."
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 15, 1866, p. 208.

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