It was in the day-room of a certain Sailors’ Home that the old salt was yarning to a visitor. “I mind,” he said, ‘‘when homeward hound on the ‘Argyle, ’ one of the old windjammers, that we run clean of baeca. What did tve do? * Why we smoked tea-leaves. Now you don’t hanker over-much fer vor pipe when it comes ter tea-leaves, mister. First smoko 1 ’ad ashore alter that I aint’s forgot yet. Better’ll a square feed it was. Sailormcn are better off than we old timers was in the sixties. ’Eero in Noo Zealand all you’ve got ter do is ter make for the nearest baeca shop and nrsk for it tin .of toasted Cut Plug No. 10. As diff’rent it is from the ord-nary baeca its prime roast, hoof is from salt horse.” Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), so much approval oil by this ancient mariner, is one of the five famous toasted brands, the others being Navy Cut No. 3 (Bullion;), Cavendish, liivoriiead Gold and Desert Gold —all as harmless (being toasted), as they are delicious.*
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Fur Corgis ami Golds, never fails.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3292, 9 April 1935, Page 2
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