HE WAS A GOAT! J UST a common every-ilay goat, with horns and a set of zuza whickers He was hungry. He could not find a thing to cat. He bad wandered down one alley and up another, but all the streets were olean—the he«]th inspector bad been round. There wasu't a scrap of rubbish about, not even oi l tin cans, and the bills were glued to tight to the bill boards that they would not come 08. The more he tried to find a lunoh (h* hungrier he got. AH at onoe be caught light of something fluttering in the wind. Boa« ning to it he swallowed it without hesitation. Next morning be was <?ead. On toning bin over they found the end of a newspaper vtioking out of his mor.Ui. He had swallowed everything but a big sayi g that a certain cough mixture was as good aa Lo&sby's BENJAMIN GUM. Even a goat could not swallow that. He had turned orer empty mellolne bottles for years and sipped the last few drop', so he was something of a judge himself. He knew there waa nothing as |ood ai Bwijatata (tan) {or
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 103, 15 June 1900, Page 2
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195Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 103, 15 June 1900, Page 2
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