3-085-707 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Géraudel's Pastilles, 1898. 'Silence in Court - No Coughing - Take Géraudel's Pastilles. Scene in a Police Court. MAGISTRATE (to prisoner): "What have you to say for yourself?" PRISONER: "Well, yer Washup, I had a dreadful Cough, and I went into a shop and I see a bill, 'If you Cough take Géraudel's Pastilles,' so I took some and the Copper run me in. But my Cough's gone, yer Washup." MAGISTRATE: (who has had some): "Discharged!"' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.