PODGY'S TEA-TIME.
Well ■! ” “\Viin.tVr;iia .tuff, Mrs Podgy? “ its Ida, dear. Is your sight failing ? ” “ l«a! Looks to mo more like pvli.-hmg pvt. d'ssolvod in soapsuds-” •* Ou, imw clrv -r you ri’h 1 Why, its a new b.ouil, hu«l so cheap.” "Ot oou.i'B ns che.p. I suppose you did..*!, think of mid. h thing as quality?” “ jsul, dear, it »a>s ou the packet that the uuahty is good.” , ■ “ on the pa- kefc! Dye think that tombstones ai-. i ho only things that cany lies? I say the stufl i« lujurious to heal •).” .. . . . ~ ‘•.vVell, dear, I took whit the grocer recommended.” • u Of i.wowmh, io *b6 snvsi You don fc .eom t'. much of a judge ot tea, Mrs pOdwy,’ 1 :well, Jack, what do you want ? ” * . “ I want good to*, to drink when 1 come home tired out .with hard work* la that too milch to expect? ’ * ’* I’m sure. Jack (subbing), I always i try to get you the best I can.'’ “ Well, if you want to. get tea that will put life.mto a fellow, add not po son his inside and destroy his wife’s good looks, ; get.ehe same as Smith buys.” ‘‘Oh,'yea (cheeting upj. I know; its , Ceylon- ,X ;waa always going to try it Such'a queer name, too. * (Jock o’ the North.’ 1 “Yes,.and' its the Champion Game Cock in the tea line, I cau 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 Buys.” ■ ■■■■■;■■ ■ . •‘ All right, dear, you shall have it to-night ; i’ll see to it.” ;r* The scene is now changed at Podgy’S, for .the ue.6 of Cock V the Nonb has changed Podgy, at tea. tune, .from a liranabling, dHSfttisfie l man to a kind, ! poa iderate, d;lighted hußbJtnd, and as . for Mrs Podgyv<Bue nanlt praise Hohdai- ’ bapsa Pare‘Ceylon' Tea half enougK' 1 , She is now a living advertisement for it;
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 166, 15 February 1902, Page 3
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318PODGY'S TEA-TIME. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 166, 15 February 1902, Page 3
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