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A FUNNY GAME.

A few friends met the other night in a Newtown otorcte spend a jovial evening, y but as they were all teetotallers and uone fjfk of them drank anything stronger than Clement's Tome, drunkenness was out of the question. Mac proposed a gamo at euchre, and Jones said'they had better play for something just to give the game an interest and make it lively, but times were hard, so thoy did not caro to pla; or money. Smith, howover, spied a box of Fletcher's bilious and liver pills, and proposed that each time a man was beaten he should take a pill, and this made tho gamo lively, and the fun was fast and furious. Simpson swallowed five, Jones got away with four, and Smith and Hopkins two each, and Mac got off scot free, Tho game terminated by a general exodus at 3 a.m., for Dr Fletcher's pills never labour in vain. They are the best and mildest pills mado and arc Bold by all chemists and druggists everywhere; being a positive, safe, and reliable euro for constipation, liver complaint, headache, &c. They always give satisfaction. The proprietors give away £69 (in soven prizes) at Xmas., fo:. tho seven first nearest guesses sent in, us to how many ot these pills' a large Clements Tonic bottle (now full., holds. Guess form is around each bos, and all suoh forirs aro eligible fortius competition that como from around a box, One box of pills proves their virtues and they can be obtained everywhere at Is, or post / free for 13 penny stamps, from ,»._ Clements, Newtown, ft.S.W.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4085, 9 April 1892, Page 3

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A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4085, 9 April 1892, Page 3

A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4085, 9 April 1892, Page 3

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