A FUNNY GAME.
• .'"A few friends met the. other evening in < ajNfcwtovm store tjQ spend a jovial evening, i#but as they were all teetotalj> rs and none , of them drank anything stronger than / Clements Tonic, drunkenness was ont of ; the question. Mac proposed a game of . euchrej»nd Jones' said they had better play for something 'just to give thegame an interest -and make it lively* but timeß were hard so they did not care to play for money. r Smith, however, spied a box of Fletcher's billions and liver pills, and proposed that each time a man. was beaten . he should take.ti pill, and this made the gaspe lively and the fun was fast and furious Simpson swallowed' five, Jones not away with • four, and 'Smith' and Hopkins' two each, and' Mac gob 'off' scot free. The game, terminated by a general exodus at 8 a>m.', 'for Dr. Fletcher's pills never labour in . vain. They are the beet and mildest pills 'made and are sold by all chemists and druggists everywhere ; being a positive, safe, ami reliable cnre for constipation, liyer complaint, headache. &c. They always give satisfaction. , The Droprietors ' give away jESO {in seven prizes) at Xmas, for the seven first nearest guesses sent in, as to how many of these pills a, large Tonic (now' full) holds. A'guess mlorm is around' every box. One Box of /Fletcher's Pilla proves .their virtues and ' they can be obtained everywhere at Ib, or post free 13 penny stamps, from F. M. Clemeuts, Newtown, N.S.W.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3229, 20 September 1892, Page 3
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253A FUNNY GAME. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3229, 20 September 1892, Page 3
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