"The awfully ugly chickens," from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876. [A fairy tale princess is left a sitting of eggs as her inheritance, promised by a sorcerer to contain the very best golden egg laying geese but requiring 15 years to hatch. The eggs have to be sent overseas for the hatching process, and a cargo of demoniacal atrocities comes back to the expectant maiden. Having believed herself to be an heiress, the maiden has systematically snubbed all her courtiers and is now compelled to adopt needlework as a means of keeping her opera-box (the principal of her simple wants). Her respectable parents are astonished by the demoniacal chicks; it is the way of respectable parents to be surprised when their family turns out badly.]
