Showman Peter loqr. "Now Mien [sic] Herr, you shust keep your eye mit der glass and you shall zee die grnde [sic] All-cut-come-it vich I discovare expressly you to do Honor [graphic] : Old Foozle, "Pray Doctor which is the All-cut-come-it? There appear toSnooksca. 1848]The comic image depicts a bald man [Old Foozle] in a dressing gown seated on a stool at a window; he is looking through a telescope at two comets in the sky; one comet is labeled "Canal Bank" and the other "Watervliet." A second man [Showman Peter], mustachioed and dressed in a suit and broad-brimmed hat, stands behind the seated figure. On the wall of the room, hung upside down, is a framed picture of a building with the caption: Dudly Observatory.Image is signed: "Snooks" delt.Pun on the phrase "All-cut-come-it" refers to a banker involved in the dispute, Theodore Olcott; hence, Olcott Comet.Subject relates to a dispute between two New York banks, the Canal Bank and the Watervliet Bank.still image