Stranger things have happened. Hold on, and you may walk over the sluggish animal up there yet / Th. Nast.

Cartoon showing Thomas F. Bayard holding on to tail of Democratic donkey, which is going over cliff, and man standing by Republican elephant, which is lying on ground; the White House in background, with flag "1880".
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1879 Dec. 27, p. 1001.