Willie got some Jap-a-lac

Willie got some Jap-a-lac*,
Very shiny, very black,
Caught his little sister, Sou:
Willie said, “This is on you.”
Little Sou was dumb with fear,
So Willie left a Sou-veneer.

Published in The Independent, Volume 64, S.W. Bennett, 1908.

*Jap-a-lac was a “floor varnish and stain combined.”

From Gatochy’s photostream on Flickr.