File:1870s vinegar valentine snake proposal declined.jpg

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Description An 1870s "vinegar Valentine" (intended to be folded over and sealed, the address written on the outside, and sent anonymously through the mail). The sender declares that she would never marry a superficially-attractive male "snake" who would make her miserable as a wife. The caption says:

I'm not attracted by your glitter,
For well I know how very bitter
My life would be, if I should take,
You for my spouse, a rattlesnake,
Oh no, I'd not accept the ring.
Or evermore 'twould prove a sting.

Date 1870s
date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source http://bmagblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/experia_190-scaled1000.jpg on http://bmagblog.org/2012/02/04/vinegar-valentines-for-the-one-you-love-to-hate/ (also http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you/ )
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This work was published before January 1, 1929 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or fewer since publication.

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