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Leech himself has often been known to say to friends who admired his composition on the wood block:—“Wait till Saturday, and see how the engraver will have spoiled it.”

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

Why it will have spoiled all the potatoes.”

From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by Overend, William Heysham