A FUNNY GAME.
A few friends met the othor night in Newtowu store to spend a 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 a game at euchre, and Jones Baid tlioy bad better play for something juat to give the gome an interest and make it lively, but times were hard, so they did not caro to pla; or money. Smith, however, spied a box of Fletcher's bilious and liver pills, and proposed that each timo a man was beaten he should take a pill, and this mado the game 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 exodui at 3 a.m., for Dr Fletcher's pills never labour in vain They aro the best and mildest pills made and are sold by all chemists and druggists everywhere; being a positive, safe and reliable oure for constipation, liver complaint, headache, &o, They always give satisfaction. The proprietors giye away £6B (in seven prizes) at Xmas,, for tho seven first nearest guossos sent in, as to how many'of these pills a large Clements Tonio bottlo (now full) hohk Guess form is around each box, and all suoh fortrs are eligible for this competition that come from around a box, One box of pills proves their virtuos and they can be obtained evey where at Is or post free fori!) penny stfmps, from F. M, Clements, Newtown, NSW,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4142, 18 June 1892, Page 3
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270A FUNNY GAME. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4142, 18 June 1892, Page 3
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