A FUNNY GAME.
A few friends met the other night in a Newtown storete spend a jovial evening, but as they were all teetotallers and none of them drank anything stronger, than Clement's Tome, drunkenneßß wait out of the question, Mac proposed a game at euchre, and Jones said they had better play for something just to give the game an interest and make it lively, but times wero hard, so they did not caro to pla; or money, Smith, however, spied abox of Fletcher's bilious and liver pills, and proposed that each time a man was boaten he should take a pdl, and this made the game lively, and the fun was fast and furious, Simpson swallowed five, Jones i got away with four, and Smith and ■ Hopkins two each, and Mao got of Ecot free, Tho game terminated bj I a general exodus at 3 a.m., for Di Fletcher's pills never labour in vain 1 They are the best and mildest pills'niadi 1 and ore eoldby all chemiata and drug gists everywhere; being a positive, safe ) and reliable cure for constipation, live: t complaint, headacbo, &o, They alwayi give satisfaction, The proprietors gryi away £69 (in seven prizes) at Xmaa., fn: the seven first nearest guesses sent in as to how many ot these pills a lariji Clements Tonio bottle (now full holds - Gueis form is around each box, and al , suoh forms aro eligible for this competi ■ tion that come from around a box. On 3 box of pills proves their virtaea and the; can be obtained everywhere at Is or poa lree for 13 penny stfuips, from F. I " Clements, Newtown, NBff
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4111, 12 May 1892, Page 3
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276A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4111, 12 May 1892, Page 3
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