A FUNNY GAME.
A few lriends piet the other night in a Newtown storeto spend? jovial evening, but as they wero all teetotallers and none of them drank anything stronger than Clement's Tonic, drunkenness was out of the question, Mac proposed ft game at cuchre, and Jones said they lwd better play for something jiißt to give the game an interest and make it lively, but times tyero hard, bo they did not caro to pla; or money. Smith, however, spied a box of Floteher's bilious and liver pills, and proposed that each time a man was beaten lie should take ft pill, and this mado tho game lively, and the fun was fast and furious. Simpson swallowed 6ve, Jones got away with four, and Smith and Hopkins two each, and Mao got ofl scot free, Tho &amo terminated by a general exodus at 3 a.m., for I)r pills never labour in vain Jfi'hey avo tho best and mildest pills made and are sold by all chemists and druggists everywhere; being a posjtivo, safe, and reliable cure for constipation, liver complaint, headache, &c. They always give satisfaction. Tb9 proprietors giye away £SO (in seven prizes) at Xniiis., for tile seven first nearest guesses sent in, as to how many ot these pills a large ' Clements Tonic bottlo (now full holds Guess form is around each box, and all such forn.'s are eligiblo foi this competi- • lion that come from around a box. One box of pills proves their virtues and they lean be obtai ried eveiy where at Is or post free for 13 penny sttmps, from F. M Clements, Newtown,, HBW
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4107, 7 May 1892, Page 3
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272A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4107, 7 May 1892, Page 3
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