A Funny Game.
\ A few friends met the other night in a Newtown store to spend ,a, joval evening, but as they Were (ill teetotallers and none of them drank anything' stronger than Clements Tonic, drunkenness was out of the question. Mac proposed a game at euchre, and Jones said they had better pay for something just to give the gape an intarest and make it live'y, but. times were hard, so they did not care to play for money, smith, however, spied a box of Fletcher's billjous aud liver pills, and proposed that cacti time a mail was beaten he should take a pill, aril this made the game lively and the fun fast and fui'idiiS. Simpson swallowed five, Jones got away with four and Smith and Hopkins two each and Mac got off scot free. The game terminated by a general exodus at 3 p.m. for Dr Fletcher's pills never labour In \diil. They are the best an.l mildest pills made and are sold by all chemists and druggist every where : being a positive; .safe, and, reliable cure for constipation, liver 6dmplaiHt)_h'e'ada f che etc. They always give satisfaction. The proprietors give away £50 (in seven prizes) at Xmas for the seven first nearest guesses sent in, as to how many of these pills a Clements Tonic bottle (now full) holds. A guess form is around every box, and all such forms are eligible for this competition that come from around a box. One box of Fletcher's Pills proves their virtues and they can be obtained everywhere at Is or post free 13 panny stamps, from F M Olements, Newtown, N.^'.W.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1892, Page 3
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273A Funny Game. Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1892, Page 3
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