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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 14

AN OLD-TIME BANQUET. "Carve dat ’possum to de heart," was the plantation melody sung at the supreme moment of a banquet in old Dixie some eighty years ago. "Just then," says a newspaper account, "a darkey was seen strutting up the aisle with a trencher on which a barbecued , opossum sat grinning in a bed of gravy and sweet potatoes." It was a banquet true to all the traditions of the South, and naturally enough after the feast was over the attendant guests pulled out their churchwardens and smoked the tobacco famed in those far-off days—Dill’s Best. Dill’s Best was the ruling favourite then in Dixie —to-day it is the ruling favourite throughout the world. For so fragant is it, so mellow, so full of satisfying qualities, that men smoke it to-day just as avidly as their forefathers did before them. 1

iiiumiiiiiiiii'''"' FREE PIPES and PLAYING CARDS To further popularise these two famous lines the Provincial will give to every purchaser during the next week of 2 large bottles O.K. WHISKY or 2 large bottles O.K. BRANDY A French briar-root E.P. mounted pipe or splendid pack of playing cards absolutely clg free. Now, men—Step up sharply and cash in on this offer. Provincial Hotel IN THE LOW RENTAL ABEA CORNER CASHEL AND BARBADOES STREETS . Just a few doors on the right past N.Z. Fanners’ Co-op. The Two