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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 229, 27 September 1878, Page 3

QICRAPS! SCRAPS! Safe and Reliable: AGENTS WANTED. Important to all are the facts I'm recording, •Cause times now are bad, we must cut things according ; No doubt they'll improve when the hole's thro' the hill, And that's not far off, now Ihey'vo put through the Bill. Till then we must get on the best way we can, Don't run up long bills, but pay cash is the plan To get most for our money, and make both ends meet * To deal with H. 8., who lives n.ar Matson's Creek, And opposite Meech, that very dreadful man, Who oft disturbs ye harmony of that peaceful Joying clan Of noble-minded Councillors, who meet every other week In the grand old Council Chamber down Balguerie street. I think you know by this where's Henry Billens' shop. But for fear you make mistake and into some other pop, I have made a grand discovery, for which I claim renown, That E-onomy House is "slap bagn" In the centre of the town. So now I'll continue my wares to describe, .And first on the list to catch 'em alive, Is the new patent mousetrap, that never needs baiting, And pleases the mice, for it don't keep them waiting ; Mixed biscuits, Noah's arks, and saucepans enamel, Dutch hoes and fine pencils from hair of the camel, Swiss cigars, French fiddles, Yankee augers that travel, Jack-planes, Tomahawks, and shovels for gravel, Water monkeys, gold lockets, and eau-de-cologne, Scotch mixtures, brass cannons, shirt studs, pearl and bone, Plumbobs, oyster knives, and cherry wood pipes, Dog whistles, cow bells, with/string to fly kites, Jam jars, tissue paper, soft solder, 7 clothes pegs, Bird cages, stone lime, graters for nut- . megs, Tin whistles, note-paper, meat stands , with three legs, Wife: skewers, and grindstones, new eggs, Tool baskets, prize books, and' tackle focffishing, Iron, bedsteads, and frnders for parlor j * --. and kitchen, Tin pannikins, vases, bottle blacking, and cakes, Shaving brushes, good scissors, with gridirons for "steaks. So now once\gairi\l will bid .you adieu, Tho' my paper is f£sL, I'm not half-way through; '\ As a parting salute,' I'll add one other scrap, I'm off to the Council to have a short nap. ' TENDER FORMS. BLANK FOI3IIS of Tender may be obtained "at the office of this paper.