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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1526, 18 November 1873, Page 20

A Yankee teetotal orator recently delivered himself as follows:—"Sow, boys, if you want to lie generous and treat each other, why not select some other place beside the liquor shop? Suppose, as you go by the post office, you say, ' I say. my dear fellow, come in and take some stamps.' These stamps will not cost you any more than drinks all round. Or go to the haberdasher's and say. ; Boys, come in and take a box of collars.' Walk up to a grocer's free and generous, and say, ' What kind of coffee will you have 1 ' Why not treat the groceries by the pound as liquor by the glass? Or take your comrades to a cutler's, and say, ' I'll stand a good pocketknife all round.'" The following is a literal copy of a notice erected in a field in South London:— " Ladies and Gentleman are requested not to steal the turnips. Other persons, if detected, -will be proseeuted," , '