Two cheeky mice are the stars of this 1907-copyright comic postcard — one tugs desperately at the other's tail to keep him from crawling headlong into a wire trap baited with a golden morsel of cheese, while the caption roars "MY WIFE WON'T LET ME!" — a joke as old as marriage itself, delivered here with surprisingly accomplished color lithography that gives the mice genuine personality and expression. Published by U. Co. of New York, this belonged to a hugely popular series of anthropomorphic animal humor cards that flooded the market during the Golden Age of postcards (1905–1915), when Americans sent over a billion cards a year. This example was mailed in June 1911 from Charleston, Maine, franked with a crisp green 1¢ Franklin stamp, addressed to Harvey Packard at Charleston, Maine, with a warm inscription from Mrs. Franklin — "with best wishes" — making it a tangible fragment of small-town New England social life.