Comic Annual, 2 (1831), 127–34.
Cockle v. Cackle
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Poetry, Drollery |
Subjects: | Quackery, Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals |
Mrs W refuses to take the Cockle's anti-bilious pills given to her by her children. In the end she throws them out of the window, whereupon her neighbour's chickens eat them and die. | |
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