ILLICIT WISKY.
Commissioner < a h B. Garfiela,' at a dinner in told n story of Adam Black, tie founder of the well-known publishing house. "One day a sholt time after H Black had opened lls book shop," hof H said, "a niuu entered V stealthily, leaned over the counter, ■ winked, and whispered io Mr. Blacks 1 ear 1 " ‘l’ve got some fine Upiuggled J whisky that ye can have at bargain/ " ‘Go away,’ said Mr. Black, ‘I. want nothing of that kind, You are a bad man. Go away/ "But the smuggler must have doubted;the sincerity of this repulse, for now, leaning over the counter Regain, he whispered still more earnestly : " ‘l’ll take prayer-books for it/ L ‘
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 5
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