A Promptly Acting Dose
As a panacea for all the ills that flesh is hei to my father keeps a mixture of whisky, cayenne pepper, and ground mustard, of about two hundred Fahrenheit power, an old label, announcing " Bourbon Whisky " remaining on the bottle. Some time ago mother called in the man, of-all-workto assist in the removal of some things. While doing so his eye alighted on the bottlfc, and being fond of a drop, watched his chance and took a long pull. The bottlfW hardly left his lips when it fell to/ c K e -floor. Mike, poor fellow, stood for, moment jrith his mouth wide open, lowing like the exhaust-pipe of a steam, engine, arid, then started- with long a £u vapid strides for the hydrant. -tf His copious draughts of water, however, did not relieve his burning throat* and stomach, and it required the aid of., a* stomach-pump i«t<fc cool the raging fira within.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 112, 25 July 1885, Page 5
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157A Promptly Acting Dose Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 112, 25 July 1885, Page 5
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