Unfortunately worded advertisements of the 19th century, collected in English as She Is Wrote (1884):

• “Teeth extracted with great pains.”
• “Babies taken and finished in ten minutes by a country photographer.”
• “For sale, a handsome piano, the property of a young lady who is leaving Scotland in a walnut case with turned legs.”
• “Wanted, a young man to take charge of horses of a religious turn of mind.”
• “Wanted, a young man to look after a horse of the Methodist persuasion.”
• “A steamboat-captain, in advertising for an excursion, closes thus: ‘Tickets, 25 cents; children half price, to be had at the captain’s office.'”
• “Among carriages to be disposed of, mention is made of ‘a mail phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a moveable head as good as new.'”
• “A landlady, innocent of grammatical knowledge, advertises that she has ‘a fine, airy, well-furnished bedroom for a gentleman twelve feet square’; another has ‘a cheap and desirable suit of rooms for a respectable family in good repair’; still another has ‘a hall bedroom for a single woman 8 x 12.'”