A Funny Game
A few friends met the other night in a Newtown store to spend a jovial evening, but as they were all teetotallars and nmic of them drank anything stronger than Clements Tonic, drunkenness was out of the question. Mac proposed a game :it euchre, and Jones said they had belter play for something just to give the game an interest and make it lively, but times were hard, so they did not care to play for money. Smith, however, spied ab >x of Fletcher's bilious and liver pills, am! proposed that each time a man tv.-is beaten he should take a pill, and tliis made the game fast and furious. Simpsou swallowed five, Jones got away w::!i four, and Smith and Hnpkins two each, and Mac got off scot free. The terminated by a general exodus at 3 n.m for I>r. Fletchers pills never labour iii vain. They are the best and nii.<!i>>; pills made and are sold by all clieiui^iand oruggists everywhere ; being :i jnisitive, safe, and reliable cure for const:i;.-i---tion, liver complaint, headache, etc. Tii<^ always give satisfaction. The propriit'irji give away £50 (in seven prize-) at Xuias .for the seven first nearest gucs-o sent in, as to how many of these pills a l'trge elements Tonic bottle (now full, h.;Jds. A gue.«s form is around every i>ox, and all such forms are eligible IW ih\.< competition thai come from ai-oim-! ;i box. One box of Fletcher's Pills provrfieir virtues and t.'iey can be obtained everywhere at Is, or post free 13 penny stnmps, from F. M. Clements, isewtowii, tf.S.W.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 121, 9 April 1892, Page 4
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265A Funny Game Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 121, 9 April 1892, Page 4
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