That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 14, 2020

Elizabeth and Catherine had to buy extra train tickets for their dresses.

These two have found a way to sneak in all their children without paying for them.

It was efficient to just wear the bedding during the trip.

♫”Well I’ve got this berth and these roll down blinds

I’ve got this fold up sink

And these rocks and these cactuses going by

And a bottle of German wine to drink”♫

Joni Mitchell, “Just Like This Train”

https://youtu.be/HLIArmiG0wY

Sporting Hogwarts’ school colors, Belinda napped while Melinda studied for her Transfiguration exam en route to a quidditch match. She didn’t care that much about Transfiguration, but just once she’d like to get a higher test score than that witch Hermione.

Proof that even stage coaches charged extra for luggage, forcing cheap passengers to wear all of their clothes.

Btw, what kind of name is Augustus Egg?

In these stagecoaching days, “manspreading” didn’t used to be a problem…

“Seven errors game”. The early years.

This was the LAST time the girls went to Omar the tent maker for wardrobe!

Emma literally bored her twin sister to death.

The setup for “Strangers on a Train.”

She was literally beside herself with boredom.

The gifted Augustus Egg/ was for models unwilling to beg/ his skills were enormous/ but the critics inform us / that he never painted a leg !

Enjoying their scenic tour of the Mediterranean.

Was there ever that much fabric?

Back in the 19th century parents protected their daughter’s chastity by dressing them in so much fabric that a prospective suitor couldn’t find the girls inside.

Find ten things that are different in this picture.

The rail-travel life was hard/ it could leave a lady scarred/ for life- by the stress/of choosing a dress/ when seats were sold by the yard..

Seeing double, are we?

Having just enough money to hire only one model, Augustus came up with a solution.

A graphic representation of the resulting effects of attempting to read three pages of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy.

In the first version of the airbag, the occupants of the vehicle had to wear the deflated bag; these are the only two people who agreed to do so.

Doublemint twins on their way to a bubble gum audition.

But you think I should be happy

With your money and your name

And hide myself in sorrows

While you play your cheatin’ game

Silver threads and golden needles

Cannot mend this heart of mine

And I dare not drown my sorrows

In the warm glow of your mind

The trip’s a colossal bore/ they’ve made it so often before../ but Maria reads Hegel/ while Sophia does Kegels/ and the suitors line up at HER door !

“We’ve been on this coach for hours and have seen nary a single one of those noble Indians that we’ve read so much of!”

“We’re in England stupid”

“Yes and…?”

While Louisa slept, Luella read up on the best way to murder her twin and get away with it.

The Travelling Companions: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augustus_Leopold_Egg_-_The_Travelling_Companions_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/egg_augustus_leopold.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/128 

https://books.google.com/books?id=PF8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false 

https://prabook.com/web/augustus.egg/3730573 

https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/e/augustus_leopold_egg.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=yGQRYu9M74AC&pg=PA252#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/egg/index.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Egg_Augustus.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/06/19?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comment and reply is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 15 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2449 (May 13, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Not a joke exactly but if those two are in a horse drawn coach (a very rough ride) I’m incredibly impressed that the woman on the right can read a book without getting car – er – coach sick.

An old fashioned way to enforce social distancing. And stay off of my dress!

twin sales ladies on their way to YUMA to sell roombas

I just assumed they were in a train car.

Ah. The difference between remembering or forgetting a book on a long trip …

Both boys were thinking “This is the last time I’m going cosplaying as Hermione”.