THE TEETOTAL GROCER.
Please won’t you patronise, my shop? Tis very clean and nice, And any article you want I’ll get you in a trice. 1 keep a large and varied store —as you will own, 1 think; But there is one thing I don’t stock - intoxica.ing drink. You’ll dnd my cheese and bacon prime, and if you’ll only try My tea, I’m sure you’ll come to get a fresh supply; My margarine is of the best, my butter’s good and pure— For cheap and nasty articles I never could endure.
I’m positive my neighbour’s goods no better are than mine; Although his shop is twice as large, and more than twice as fine: But he a spirit license holds, ar.d i am not afraid To say—it is this license that’s ruining my trade!
It’s very hard to see the folks all flocking to his shop, But I will never sell strong drink no, not a single drop! And il you are teetotallers —now', please, don’t think me bold— Don’t buy your groceries at a shop in which strong drink is sold! -—“L.S.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 370, 18 April 1926, Page 13
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183THE TEETOTAL GROCER. White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 370, 18 April 1926, Page 13
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