Arthur John Elsley, English
“You Were Right, Grandpa! Unpaid Child Labor IS Fun!,” 1904
Oil on canvas
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/// Gramps and girls pull the rowboat ashore
as though playing a game: tug of war.
The group’s light-hearted struggling
hides the fact Gramps is smuggling
drugs stored under the vessel’s false floor.
/// “Cap’n Red” knows his grandkids are sweet,
and their dog makes deception complete.
None who see are suspicious
that the “Cap’n” is vicious,
and their haul’s worth ten grand on the street.