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Thru the politeness ov Mr. John Smith, i cum in
possession ov yure valuabel letter, at about 9 o'clock
night before last, in which yu offer me 10 dollars
for a poultiss.

I hav had a fair chance to use yure pills upon
several important occasions, and can sware posatively
that they kan beat enny pills ov their size i ever
contended with.

Underneath this letter yu will find a poultiss
which i think will draw.

If yu see fit to use it, yu kan emit the 10 dollars
by mail, at our risk.

In the mean time, bet freely than i am yure humble
servant,

POULTISS.

Barnabass Bonesett, M. D., (mutch dokter,) chuck
full ov faith, bloze his horn, and bi these presents

duz blo hiz horn about hiz “Lightning Express and
Serio-Sensation pills” a cumfert and a joy to man.

Theze pills are of rutes—rutey, and kost the Author
4 years in the wilderness, besides sleepless
nights, and anxious days, tew git them down to a
spot, without blemish and filled with fun.

These pills will kure deffness, dipthery and dandruff—are
good for baldness, bronkreeters and baksliding—are
sertin tew heal hedake, hifalutin, and
hangnails—will remove warts, windgauls and wens
—destroy awl longings, lassitudes, laziness—will
soothe the sorrowful, cam the crazy, and kure a
common sized fit in 2 minnits.

They are closs packed in little round boxes, and
each little box kontains 2 dozen and 2, or no sail.

Each box iz dun up in a trakt, which sez that
they are az sure to cure, az lightning iz tew strike
what it starts for.

On the top ov the box iz a full sized painting ov
the Author, with a grub hoe in one hand, and a
whole parsell ov roots in the other—with a napsack
on hiz back, and mountains in the distance, tew
which he iz pinting with the grub hoe—them iz the
mountains whare he gits the rutes.

On the top ov each little round box, iz these
words, in a forrin tung, “Hocus pocus, quod constal

lus,” which being biled down means, “purely vegetabels.”

For sum more partikulars, cummune with the
author.