THE HOWL-AWAY PILLS COMPANY, UNLIMITED.
In these sad days of liquidation, There's no field left for speculation, A cause for deep regrets ; To meet this want, it is proposed To form a Company, composed Of several wealthy. Setts. No vulgar Banking soheme for me, Financial, or Land Company, Coffee or Cotton Mills, No Bricks and Tiles, nor Patent Slips, No Cotton Screws, nor Iron Ships, My little game is— Pills. None of your Joint-Stock Corporations, Nor " Grand" Finanoe Associations, Nor Mazagons nor Freres, None of your Back-Bay Reclamations ; Send in at once your applications, If you'd secure some shares, The " Pills and Ointment Company," Buy up Professor Howl-away (Whose name of course appears) ; The Capital, subscribed with ease, Amounts to Two Crores of Rupees,* In Fifty Thousand Shares. To cure, to strengthen all mankind, The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, What medicine can we ever find, So efficacious of its kind, As Howl-away's renowned Pills, "Well known to cure all human ills, And save no end of doctor's bills, And all the bore of making wills I For itch, for scars, for broken knees, For bites from snakes, wildboars, and fleas, What instantly gives so much ease (Without the expense of doctor's fees) As Howl-away's renowned Ointment ! No lotion, salve, or liniment, Was ever to poor mortal sent So rich in virtue or in scent 1 Through India, China, and Japan, Where'er we find poor suffering man, Our medicines we'll purvey For Shares, if you a fortune seek, Apply before next Tuesday week, To P. & 0., Bombay. *Two Millions sterling. —Ondh Gazette, Lucknow, Aug, 11, 1860.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 817, 12 January 1867, Page 4
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268THE HOWL-AWAY PILLS COMPANY, UNLIMITED. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 817, 12 January 1867, Page 4
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