Two veterans of the cue met in an Auckland billiard saloon the other evening, and while waiting for a table got talking tobacco, as old smokers will. Said one: “Don’t know how it is, Bob, ,but I don’t seem to get thepleasure out of my pipe I used to. Losing my taste for it” ‘‘ Becko'n you’re ‘brandtired’,” said Bob. “You want a change of baccy, old man. Myself Ive been smoking the same old brand tor 20 years, and wouldn’t change. Why should I? I can’t get anything better, or so good. But there are biands, I know, that ‘go off’ a lot. Mine—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) —doesn t. “Toasted, isn’t it?” asked his cobber. “That’s right! One of the five genuine toasted brands —Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Biverhead Gold and Desert Gold. And next to no nicotine in any of ’em! The toasting does it, my boy! Now, you try. Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and I wager a new hat you’ll soon relish your pipe again!” And so he did! 534
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 March 1936, Page 6
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