PODGY'S TEA-TIME.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 163, 8 February 1902, Page 3

PODGY'S TEA-TIME.

-< Well 1” * 1 Well ! ” Wliut’u this stuff, Mrs Podgy ? ” “ Its tea, dear. Ia your sight failing ? ” “ Tea ! Looks to rno more like polishing pasts dissolved in soapsuds’” “ On, bow clever you ivrv ! Why, its a new blond, sud ao cheap,” “Of course its cheap. I suppose yon didn’t think of such a tiling aB quality 1” “ But, dear, it aayn on the packet that the quality is good.” Says on tho pa-iks* ! 1) ye think thifc tonihstonea ar? the only things that carry lies? I say the stuff ia' injurious to health ” “ Well, dear. I took what the grocer recommended.” ■“ Of course, to be cure I You don’t .eem to be much of a judge of tea, Mrs Podgy.” <• Well, Jack, what no you want?” “ J want good lea to dr ink whoa I come home tired out witn hard work, is that too much to expect ? ” “ I’m sure. Jack (sobbing), I always try to get you tne best I can.” “ Well, if you want to get tea that will put life into a fellow, and not; poison his ijjside and destroy his wife’s good looks, get ohe same as Smith buys.” « Oh, yes (cheering up). I know ; its Ceylon. I was always going to try i $ Such a queer name, too. 1 Cook o’ thr> North.’ ” . _ “Yes, and its the Champion Game Cock in the tea line, I can tell you. I never drank anything like it. Its a beverage, that’s what it is, Mrs Podgy ; grateful and comforting, as Thing-um-my-bob.says.” “All right, dear, you shall have it to-hight; I’U see, to it.”

The scene is now changed at Podgy’s, for the hso of Cock o’ the Non h has changed Podgy* at-tea time, from .a grumbling, dissatisfied man to a kind, «ctaaiderate, delighted . hunband* and as for Mrs Podgy, aha. oaq’t praia? HondaiLanka Pare Ceylon Tea half enough. She is now a living .advertisement for it. ‘ 1 ' ' ‘ r ‘ ”,