PODGY'S TEA-TIME.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 164, 11 February 1902, Page 3

PODGY'S TEA-TIME.

» Weill" "Weill" " What's THIS staff, Mrs Podgy ? " " Its tea, dear. la your sight failing ? " •• 'ten! Looks to me more like ; polishing piute <l ssolved in sonpiud?"" " On, Jk>w clevor you are 1 Why, its a new b.iind, iml so cheap." "Of course iia cheap, I BUppoae you dido's think of such a thing as ciudity?" •' But, dear, it ?«y» on tho packet thfi.<; the quality ik-good." "Way* on tho piu.-k.it ! D'ye thi.nl: th-ifc tombstones ar<- thr-joniy things that carry lies? I 6ay tho Btuii* is injurious- to health." " Well, dear I took what tho grocer recommended." "Of cum.-, to he euro! You seem t» bo amah of a judge of tea, Mre Podgy." «' VVell, Jack, what do you warns?" " I want good, te i to drink when I come home tiied out with hard work. Is lhat too much to expect? ' "I'm sure, Jack (Hfbbjng), I always try to get you the heat I can/'' . " Well, if >ou w,uit to get tea that, will put life into a fellow, and not poison his mahle and destroy his wife's good lookSi get rba same as Smith buys." " Oh, ye-< (choenng up}. I knew ; its Ceylon. I was alwuya. gojng to try ib Such n, que*? name, too. ; 'Cock o' the North.'V-,' 5 - ■'; :* "Yes, and its the Champion Game Cock in the tea line, I cm tell you. I never' drarsk anythiog like ib. Its a that's what it in, Mra Podgy; grateful and comforting, &b Thing-uia-oriy--bob suy's." •'All-light, dear, you.shall have 4t to-night; I'll see to it."

The Hcene is now changed at Podgy s, for the use. of Cock o' the North has changed Podgy,. at, tea time, from a grumbling, dissatisfied mun to a kind, considerate, -delighted husband, and as for Mrs Podgy, she can't .praise HondaiLanka Pure Ceylon Tea half enough. She is now a living advertisement for it. • ',