ADVERTISE !
* (By WALT MASON.)
I asked eight dollars and a half for one fine black Polled Angus calf, which price was not too high. I hoofed it west. I-hoofed it east, endeavouring to sell the beast, but no one wished: to buy. Day after day 1 toiled along, and bored men with the same old song, "I have a calf for sale; I ask eight bones and fifty cents, for th'iis unequalled critter, gents—who will dig up the kale?" Then said a friend, "Oh, rest your feet, and quit your wearing out the street, and howling by the year; spend fifty cents, and advertise your sawed-off cow of pocket size, and buyers will appear." I followed up that sane ad,vice, and put my jaded feet on ice; and when the ad. appeared ten customers came to my gate; one bought the calf kind paid tho fi-oigli't, the otherls bucked and reared. And thus, by printing little ads. the wisp man gathens in the seadw and rests his aching corns; a little ad. will make more noise than fiftyseven noisy boys all tooting on their horns.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 December 1917, Page 3
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185ADVERTISE ! Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 December 1917, Page 3
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