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Beneath the image is a verse by Robert Blair

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Cecil Street was removed for the construction of the Cecil Hotel

'Queen Hermione'

Traffic is in the foreground

The Parliamentary Python mb-artistname Claude Dubosc Beneath the image is a'The Parliamentary Python', 1862. The python at the Zoological Gardens in London had at this time laid some 100 eggs. Although she was incubating them, they failed to hatch as they had been left at one point whilst she went off to shed her skin. This incident provided a good opportunity for Punch to have a dig at the current political situation. The eggs in this case are all labelled with contemporary political issues. Lord Russell and the PM,