HE WAS A GOAT! Just a common every-day goat, with horns dad a set of jsuwt whiskers. Ho *u hungry.' He oould not find a thing to eat, He ttfd wandered down one alley and up another, but all the streets were clean—the health inspector had been rouad. Thew scrap of rubbish a'xmt, not cvenold Un cans, and tbe bills were glued to tight tow bill boards that they would not oome off. The more he tried to find a lunch (M hungrier he got. • 411 at oatee heo*ug|t« «iRh» of something fluttering in the wj®™ . , ning to it he swallowed it without hesitation Next morning he was dead, On turning him over they found thv ond of a cew»p*p» sticking out of M* mo -tb. He had swallowc evervtbi' g hut a bi* advertisement «ayin-» that a ceil.au cough mixture was as good atsj Loasby's BIMJAMIN GUM. Even a goal could not s U"W that. He had turned o?ei empty me lioine bottles <o: years and sipped the last fe» drops so he was somethiog.of a judge himself. H« knew then wat nothl&x as good m Benjamin Quia (or ooaghi
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 170, 27 June 1900, Page 2
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191Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 170, 27 June 1900, Page 2
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