Uncle Sam is shown fleeing while the bottom has dropped out of the policy chair, as Nast is shown as the patient artist who falls through while he still extends high in the air the traditional scissors, significant of defiance to the last.
Paine, Albert Bigelow Th. Nast: His Period and His Pictures (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1904)
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