The butlers don't feel a thing

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Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), unpublished sketch, date unknown (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Head of the hon. Hons was Josh, the groom, who was greatly beloved by us all and worth buckets of Norman blood; chief of the horrible Counter-Hons was Craven, the gamekeeper, against whom perpetual war to the knife was waged. The Hons would creep into the woods and hide Craven's steel traps, let out the chaffinches which, in wire cages without food or water, he used as bait for hawks, give decent burial to the victims of his gamekeeper's larder, and, before a meet of the hounds, unblock the earths which Craven had so carefully stopped.

 

Nancy Mitford: from The Pursuit of Love, 1949

Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), Daily Express, 24 February 1949 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), Daily Express, 4 September 1951 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), Christmas card (publisher unknown), November 1976 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), Daily Express, 2 February 1982 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Ronald Carl Giles (1916-1995), Conservancy Trust Christmas card, 1985 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Mac [Stan McMurtry], Daily Mail, 1 November 2002 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Steve Bell, The Guardian, 4 December 2002 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Christian Adams, Daily Telegraph, 11 October 2011 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

Andy Dave, The Sun, 8 March 2012 (British Cartoon Archives, University of Kent)

News: "Burly Seb Baker told yesterday how he was mugged by a fox -- which nabbed garlic bread from his shopping. The 15-stone civil servant was cornered after going to Tesco. Terrified Seb, 29, tried to fight off the beast by swinging his shopping bag. But the fox was unfazed. He said: 'I had expected it to run away. I thought a fox would be scared of a 15-stone man.' Seb had seen the animal sitting on the kerb moments before Monday evening's incident in Orpington, Kent. He said: 'I turned down an alley, but when I looked round I saw it running towards me. I stopped, thinking it would run off. But the fox started circling me and then jumped up, trying to grab my shopping bag.'"...  The Sun