Solomon Jericho’s wife coldly asks when he can let her have some money, and he wishes aloud that he were made of it. The wish is granted: he can now peel banknotes from his own breast without end, but every note he spends costs him something of himself, while his family and London society scramble to share the fortune.
A sharp Victorian fable of greed by the Punch wit, illustrated by John Leech. Download the free EPUB.