A FUNNY GAME.
A few friends met the other night in a Newtown storrtusieiid.3 jovial evening, but as they wero all teetotallers and u- ; uo (if them drank anything, stronger .than Olemont's Tonic,,imukennessiwas out of the (j'iestinn. Mac proposed a yuno at euchre, and Jones said they had better play for something just to give the game ah interest and make it lively, but times were hard,,so they did not care- to phv> uv money- Smith, however, spied a box of Fletcher's bilious and liver pilia, and proposed that each time a m in was beaten ho should- take a pill, and this made the game lively, and the fun was fast and furious, Simpson swallowed live. Jones got away with four, and Smith and Hopkins two each, and Mac got oil scot free, The game terminated by a general exodus at 3 a.m., for Dr Fletcher's pills nover labour in vain Thoy aro tho best and mildest pills made and are sold by all chemists and druggists everywhere; being a positive, safe, and reliable cure fur constipation, liver complaint headache, &c. They always give satisfaction. Tlw'proprietors give away £SB (in seven prizes) at Xmas., for the seven first nearißtguesses sent in,' as to how many ol these pills a large Clements Tonic bottlo (now full holds: Guess form is amundeach box, and all *uoh forirs are eligible 1 for this competition that come from around a box. One box of pills proves their vi/tuea and they lan be obtained everywhere at Is or post rcofoi'l3 penny stomps, from F. M Clements, Newtown, MW -.-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4118, 21 May 1892, Page 3
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264A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4118, 21 May 1892, Page 3
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