THE GIFT HE GAVE
Tam Potions, the quack-medicine reador, found himself in a sleepy country town recently, and so difficult did he find it to attract a crowd that he determined to play his trump card. ••To this place, ladies and gentleman, ho said, “I owe my birth and education, i, is deeply reverenced in my affections in fact, I love it and its inhabitants! Therefore, in half an hour’s time, I shall make a present of five_ shillings to eve it man, woman, and child who will' accept it.” The remarkable offer passed round with lightning-like rapidity, and when that half-hour bad expired almost the whole of the inhabitants of the place had gathered exjxjctantly tha smart phaeton, and once more lom stood up to address them. ■T am now about to fulfil my pro. mise,” ho said. “I have here, ladies and gentlemen, a medicine, the value of which to mankind it is impossible to estimate. I usually retail it at os fid,, a bottle, but to-night in this my native, town I will let you each have one for Od.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5665, 12 August 1905, Page 11
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