NOT A RELIABLE CHEMIST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 12 March 1910, Page 6

NOT A RELIABLE CHEMIST.

Harvey Nanigan's mother-in-law was taken sick at his house one night, and helped herself to a large dose of rat poison, thinking it was painkiller. She had consumed sufficient poison, the doctor said, to kill a dozen persons. But she pulled through. "It was a close shave," said the doctor the next morning. "She took enough to kill the whole family,: hut the stuff fortunately must have been in stock for some time, and nearly all its strength was-gone." . A month later a friend asked Harvey Nanigan to recommend a reliable druggist to him. "Squills is a good man, I understand," said the friend. "Know anything about him?" "Well," said Harvey Nanigan slowly, "I couldn't conscientiously recommend Squills and Co. to you, old man. They swindled me on some rat poison once.'