A while back my wife and I were given access to a bunch of old documents relating to the country estate where we live. The reason for that was that we run a community website for the village and the estate, and the estate manager knew we were interested in local history.
Anyway, one of the odder items we found amongst the papers was this…
I find the description of the wee beast’s utterances particularly… surprising! 
I think odd is a fitting word.
Ain’t it?
Here’s another:
One notes that the three languages of purported fluency do not include the language this advertisement was written in. 
Indeed.
I wonder if any of the audience were able to validate the polyglot claim. At least in those days some English people did make the effort to study other languages.
I do have one other peculiar document. A sales pamphlet which relates the benefit of certain gases when applied to people suffering from that most feared of afflictions… BAD LEGS!
I’ll post it when I find it.
I love the ending “Vivat Rex et Regina” which they translate as “Long live the King! Long live the solicitor general!”. Was the solicitor a “queen”? Not that there’s anything wrong with it…
This poster reminde me of the mad scientist on South Park who made a monkey with 4 asses 
You really do have to hope that the “Long live the King! Long live the solicitor general!” bit was supplementary to the Latin rather than an attempt at translation, don’t you!
Oh wow. I love rats. This is something I want badly. Do you mind if I save it and print it off?
A three-tailed rat “actually occasionally uttering sounds like a CHRISTIAN.”
Brings a tear to me eye, it does.
That notice has to be one of the most hilarious things I’ve seen in a while. 
I agree.
Can’t see a problem, Cran. Any copyright is likely to have expired long ago!
… and that stuff about “loaves and fishes” and “red herrings” as rat chow, as well as the “most capital sport” of an ensuing rat-hunt make me wonder if it wasn’t a humorously intended spoof.
I think, but am not certain, that this is a political broadside, a satire on anti-Semitism. There is no date on the broadside, so I don’t think it is an actual event. For example,
The voracious properties of the RAT Tribe are well known throughout the United Kingdom, and more particularly in the County of Bucks.
I think this may be a reference to the Rothschild family in Buckinghamshire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire
Also,
This Tribe has established themselves in ROTTEN and DECAYED BURROWS, formed originally by other domestic and useful Animals, which they have entirely driven out…
Just the repeated use of the word “Tribe”, the idea of driving out other animals, the Christian references, the historical equating of Jews and vermin—it just seems like about the only thing it could be. The Christian references are what make it seem like a satire on anti-semitism rather than anti-semitic. The speaker is making fun of anti-Semites it seems to me. I don’t know. There are things I don’t get, but maybe they are refering to some specific people of the time. Or I could be insane.
Cynth, you may well be onto something, there!!
Yep, I’ll back Cynth’s apercus.
At first I thought the “Decayed Burrows” might be a reference to the
Hellfire Caves of West Wycombe But the Rhetoric doesn’t seem to fit the Dashwood family.
The whole thing does seem to be emotionally Loaded in quite a distinct way.
You might want to note the Ben Disraeli, Britain’s first Jewish Prime Minister, made his home at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire.
I’m not sure, but he may have been “cocking a snoot” at a fairly anti-semitic county. (Then, at least).
If it’s satire, I’m inclined to think it’s anti-Semitic, rather than a spoof on anti-Semitism. Looks like they may be saying the Jews have usurped everything good and useful and let’s everyone get together and drive them out.
Best wishes,
Jerry
…and on re-reading, Jerry, I see your point.
Living as I do in an age -and area- where such a thing would become the subject of public notice and general strong disapproval if the broadside’s intent were racist, my first inclination was that it must be a satire of anti-Semitism. Now I’m not so sure.