Coughing at So Much a Week.

Otago Witness, Issue 2051, 15 June 1893, Page 50

Coughing at So Much a Week.

",Oh, they will go through the same business again as soon as they get another carriage," said a man recently travelling by the same train as the writer. " That's how they earn a living — one curing and the other being cared of a cold."

This remark was the result of watching a pretty bit of acting between the two passengers who had now left.

The train was crowded, and we had only just started, when one of the two above-mentioned, who were appareLtly sbranger3 to each other, was seized with a most violent fit of coughing, which continued until—

"Try one of these," said the other individual. As the wjrds were uttered a packet of cough lozenges was passed from one to the other, care beirg taken that the label, having the words " Blank and Go.'s Celebrated Cough Cure" on it, should be uppermost.

The cough ceased as if by magic, and then the wonderful virtues of the lozenge were talked about until the train stopped at a station. " Now, just lean out and see if they don't get in the train higher up," went on the individual who made the remark quoted above. "I knew they would. They are paid a weekly wage and travelling expenses by the maker of the lozenges, and have been on this lay 12 months to my knowledge. Of course they always choose a full carriage if possible, and get through their respective parts before arriving at the next station."