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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4415, 17 May 1922, Page 2

( Central Hawke’s Bay is smiling at the astuteness displayed on May 1 by a well-known resident who is interested in horses (relates the Napier "Telegraph”). Presenting himself at the bar of a big country hotel, he called for a "long one.” Receiving the same, he told mine host that he was going out with the pint to exchange it for a brace of ducks. The purveyor Scotch milk smiled sceptically, remarking .that his client had no hope. Five minutes later the searcher for game reappeared with a brace, of ducks and an empty glass. “How did you do it ?” asked the astonished boniface. “Oh, that was easy, I took the glass to your cook, told him that you had sent me for the best brace of ducks hanging in the pantry., and that the Speights was for him.” The satisfied resident then left the bar, leaving the astounded * hotelkeeper too dazed even to collect the price of the pint for which the ducks had been procured. For Influenza, take ■Woods’ Great Peppermint Curei,