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Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 78

SELECTIONS f WHJOf! IS 1 lN LAST FROM I ""' " " 7 YEAR'S Aeons ago, when all the world's were noi, If asked to prove it, do so in this wise : And mortal man as yet was unbegot, As Man began to grow, aEd colonise, The King of Nothing, weary of the void, His ailments waxed proportionate to hin wealth, Produced, by sleight of hand, this Asteroid. Till soon he cried for something for his healDh. After a million years or so had passed, Then rose in Legion medicines galore, Small Maggots bred upon our Protoplast. Brass-heralded by ads. from shore to shore. From them to Man was slow, but ever sure, Then the King said :— " Only shall endure Which brings the mind to Woods' Great Pep- The fittest!" Ergo -—Woods' Great Pepperpermint Cure. mint Cure. '•Theßelleof New York "skipped to "Gay London "The Pris'ner of Zecda" hearing these words, Town" to meet her old friend " The Geisha," dropped a line to his pal " The Mikado." "San Toy" wished to go, but ho was "Called '"If I were King,"' wrote he, 'I'd stop all their Back," so straight away started for Asia. pranks, such actions I deem mere bravado.' "The Sign, of the Cross" was then all the rage, "The Two Little Vagabonds," who stood meekly which both desired badly to see. by, j«gt wished they could join in the fun, "The Gondoliers," "Mascotte" and "Ma Mie Yet, alas, these poor boya who seemed minus all Rosette " came forward to join in the spree. joys " Struck Oil " if they captured a bun. •Such follies suit some,' quoth old "Faust" with "Sweet Nell of Old Drury" in her usual kind » leer, style, ' I cjm gat mil my frolic "In Town " plus the beer, Sympathised with these lads and said with a TheJ, v 'will end up with colds and their joys will be smile. fewer, • You'll gain your reward for the woes you endure, Till grtat Woods passes over bis Peppermint See : Woods sends you a bottle of Peppermint Cure.' Cure.' The swagtnan bends beneath his load, „. Down in the depths the miner toils, At on the cold and muddy road * In cold and wet, to win the spoils lie trudges to his camp ; He risks his life to gain ; He knows that evening brings the chill, He's told that though la> work like sluve, Th»t midnight brings the fogs that kill There threatens but an early grave, With their ineidiowi damp ; Or an old age of pain ; He knows, but yet he feels secure, He smiles, he knows he is immure Hlftßwag contains Woods' Peppermint Cure. While he can get Woods' Peppermint Cure. "WOODS' CREAT PEPPERMINT CURE" FOR COUGHS AND GOLDS SOLD EVERYWHERE. PRICE— I/6