THE TWO BEST SAINTS.
(Extract from an old soldier's letter to him comrade.) • ' ''•.'' Dear Harrr— "* • • And now es-fco my health. "Well, old fellow, you knergr that our nights iathe and '66 were not calculated to lengtheo oor days, bat at that time we did nob mindiTis our sole object was to eafech Kereopa, but he had too many faHhfol followers. Brave fellows those old Maoris were 1 How in oar maturer years we can admire them 1 Lord bowl wander! What I want to say Is that I have been laid up with a fearful dose of sciatica and lumbago, eight weeks in bed unable to turn. My poor wife had a time >O fit. After spending a good roundisum m medicines, lotions, aW God knowSwfcat, wegot*some St. Jacob's Oil. I was always a scoffer at patent medicines, but,"by Jove, I more cautious in future.. It was the only thing that seemed to tackle the old enemy and dear him oufc. I bare an occasional reminder, but St. Jacob always comes to: my aid. Indeed, next to St. Patrick,.he is the best saint in the calendar. *. * ~* " "Soars, &&, • ■■ . . .:. ■ jjfS" , i . ■■ > J.
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Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7524, 14 April 1890, Page 2
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