3-078-072 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for "Rough On Rats", 1890. 'All this trouble might have been avoided by the use of one 7½d box of "Rough on Rats." Clears out Rats, Mice, Flies, Bed-Bugs, Ants, Roaches, Mosquitoes &c. Household Troubles..."Oh! daddy, the rats! A dozen or two Are gobbling the supper, and baby too." My wife, with a scream, seized iron and broom...Never was heard such a hullabaloo!...The terrier thought we were hunting the cat, Got a grip of her tail, as she went for the rat...teapot, plates, lamp, chairs, baby and all, Were upset on the floor...the police rushed in the cause to inquire; They'd listen to nothing we wanted to state. But to the next station lugged me off straight. Swore I was drunk - nearly murdered my wife, And of my poor infant endangered the life...Imprisoned and fined, I cursed my sad fate, When lately I learned, but rather too late, Instead of depending on traps, dogs, or cats, My only protection was "Rough on Rats." A LARGE COMIC LITHOGRAPH in Seven Colours, illustrating the above lines, and which has convulsed the world in laughter, forwarded by post upon receipt of 2d. F. NEWBERY & SONS, Wholesale Agents, 1, King Edward St, Newgate St., London, E.C, "ROUGH ON RATS" is sold only by Chemists'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.