St. Jacobs Oil family calendar and book of health and humor for the million : 1885 : containing original humorous articles & illustrations by the leading humorists of America / the Charles A. Vogeler Company.

  • Charles A. Vogeler Company
Date:
1884
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Credit: St. Jacobs Oil family calendar and book of health and humor for the million : 1885 : containing original humorous articles & illustrations by the leading humorists of America / the Charles A. Vogeler Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vT^Vj Booh of Health and Humor for the Million. «XL) 7” — h- . --- \hi(lL J \uZJ\ c i TOD.”* ( Written for The St. Jacobs Oil Family Calendar, 1S85, by Miss Duam, Baltimore, Md.) Tod was such a little kid You’d hardly think ’twas in him,— Q,uiet as a mouse when hid, A kindly word would win him; But if you ’d let him have his way He’d make your hair stand, any day. I told him once the story quaint The Bible tells, of certain boys Who ridiculed an aged Saint By crying, “ Bald-head!” with a noise, And then the bears, from out the wood, Devoured them all, just where they stood. I saw he didn’t quite believe A word-1 said about it,— He really thought I might deceive, And said as much to doubt it; He’d laugh at heads without a hair, And never once would see a bear. The next day, sitting all alone, Tod saw an old man pass; His hat was off, his bald-pate shone As shines a piece of glass: The child looked up, and with a glance Was on his feet;—he saw his chance. To make things sure, he seized the door, Then cried: “Old Bald-head/” twice. He slammed it too, and o’er the floor Came tripping in a trice; j And then, as through the hall he tears, I heard him say, “ Bring on your bears!” “ Aunty,” he said to me, that night, “How what’s the yuse to yarn, I called him ‘ Bald-head’ right on sight, An’ didn’t.keer a darn; On his head there wurn’t no hair. An’ Tod ain’t seen a nary bear.” I *[Copyright, 1884. The Charles A. Vogeler Co.] SEALED AND SIGNED. The following is a specimen testimonial from the thousands received, certifying to the virtues of St. Jacobs Oil:— m MAMS X&fU • cr^Cxjlf