"WELL, MY SON,"
said a father fco his ten-year-old boy, " what havo you done to-day that may be considered a good deed?" "I gavo a boy sixpence," replied tho young hopeful. " Well, and what did you give him sixponce for ? Was ho nn orphan, and poor and hungry, or what was it ?" " I did not aek him, ,, replied tho boy: "I gave him sixpence for thrashing another boy who upset my dinner-basket, and I think, from the nppearanco which the latter presented after the boy to whom I gave the sixpence had finished with him, that the sixpence was well earned." From the latest advices it was learned thtvt tho boy who recoivedthe thrnnhing was taken to chenearosb chemist's shop, and there thoroughly rubbed with St. Jacobs oil by tho wise chemist, who knew that "St. Jacobs oil conquers pain." The boy hae been modo well, but takes good care not to interfere with the dinnor-baskebs of othor boys. St. Jacobs oil is used by all classes of people tor senoral aches and pains. It conquers pain. It panotrates to che eeab of the diseaee. There is no remedy like it. St. Jacobs oil in poculiar to itself. It ia made from druee which no othor remediee are made from. They are gathered from the four quarters of tho crlobe, and are made after tho most scientific principles. St. Jacobs oil in an outward application. Its cost is trifling , , but to the sufforer a bottle of it is worth its woight in gold.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 2
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