His Square Meal. — One day recently one of our prominent business men was about to enter his favorite resort for dinner, he was accosted by an individual with a decidedly careworn expression, who begged that he would assist him to get somethiDg to eat. As the man looked like a worthy object of charity the gentleman told him to go in, and directed the waiter to give him twenty-five cents' worth of food and charge it to his cheque. After finishing his own dinner the gentlenan was proceeding to settle with his cheque, when, noticing a humorous look on the waiter's face, he asked him what the hungry man had ordered. The reply wais : " Five glasses pf lager,"— Jjgtfon Ad' vertiw*
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 142, 16 June 1881, Page 1
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121Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 142, 16 June 1881, Page 1
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