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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