File:1880 shoe advertisement with babies and poem.jpg

Summary[edit]

Text of the poem:

Walk in! Walk in! my limping friend,
Your grevious (sic) trials here may end
What though you're vexed by corns and bunions,
As sore as boils and big as onions
Smith's boots of softest leather,
Will give you ease for months together.

Come in, fair ladies—here you'll find,
In latest styles, to suit your mind,
Boots, shoes and slippers; then again
We've boots and shoes for boys and men.
In fancy stocks, or stoutest leather,
For any place or any weather.

Indeed, we keep no worthless trash,
To vex men's souls, and waste their cash ;
Come one and all from far and near,
In way of prices we are not dear ;
The lowest prices—best of stock,
Are found at SMITH & SON's, Mellish's Block.

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