A. CURIOSITY IM ADVERTISEMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1031, 16 November 1882, Page 1

A. CURIOSITY IM ADVERTISEMENTS.

in a work entitled ' Tin Vicar of MorwenstoA, 7 ' a life of Robert Stephea Hawker. .61 A., by S. Biring-Gould, MA. the following description of an advertisement, issued at Weilcome, in Devonshire, appears. As it is a curiosity we reproduce it for the edification of our readers. It is. as follows: —'Roger Giles, Surgin, Parish Clark, and Siailmaster, Grocer, and . Hundertaker, Respectfully informs ladies and gentlemen that lie drors teef without wateing a ininit, applies lasiiss every hour, blisters on the lowest farms, and vissiks for a paQiiy a peaci. Ha sells Godfather's Kor.lales, Kufcs Korus, bunyons, dokters bosses clips donkeys one* a month, and undertakes to Inks arter eveay bodies nayls by the ear. Joes-harps, penny wissels, brass kanelstieks, fryinpans, and other moosical instrurnints at greatly redooced figures. "Young ladies and gcntlemuns larn their grammar and lan- ) gnedfe in the purttiesfc manner, also o-ivat care taken off tiieir niorrels of spelling. Also zann-singing, teaching the base vial, and all other sorts of vancywork, squadrils, pokers, weazils, and all country dances tort at home and abroad at perfection. Perfumery and snuff in all its bnucb'S. As times is cruel, bad, I bogs io 101 l ey thai; I has jis' beginned to si'll all kinds of stationary ware, coxs, hens, vouls, pigs, and all other kinds of poultry. Blaekia-brushes, traykel, godly bukes and bibles, raise-traps, brickdist, whisker-seed, inorrel pokerankerchers, and all sorts of swatemaits, including titers passages, and other garden stuff, baccy, ziggars, lamp oyle. tay-kettles, and other inioxzikatin likkers ; a dale of fruit, hats, zongs, hare oyle, patins, bukits, grindin stones and other ateables, korn and bunvon zarve, and all hardware. I as laid in a huge assortment of trype, dog's mate, lollipops, ginger-beer, mache3, and othei piekius, such as hepsom salts, hoysterj, "Wmdzer sope, anzetrar. Old rags bought and sold here and nowhere else, new laid eggs by me Roger Giles, winging bnrdes keeped, such as howles, donkies ; payeox, lobsters, crickets, also the stock of a celebrated, brayder. Agent for selling guttyporker souls. P.S.—I teaches jography, rithmetic, cowsticks, ■jimnusties, and other Chynees tricks."