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3x-xx-xx ep050 The Woman Who Sold the Winds

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The makers of X-Lax, the original chocolate at Laxaday present, Strange as it seems. Tonight we're going to make a wish that may sound very strange to you. We hope you have one of the fusciest, most particular, hard to please families in the world.

We hope they turn the noses up and their thumbs down on everything that doesn't give them complete satisfaction. Because that is the kind of challenge we like to meet when it comes to Laxaday's. Ex-laxino has proved to the satisfaction of millions that it is the right laxative for everyone, young and old, rich and poor alike.

It is the ideal combination of every quality a laxative should have. It is mild, gentle, and thorough. And ex-lax is kind to your system. It takes six to eight hours to be effective. That's what we mean when we say ex-lax is a correctly timed laxative.

pleasant too. It tastes just like delicious chocolate. The harder you are to please, the better you'll like X-Likes. We believe that if you once try it, you'll never again be satisfied with any other laxity. The woman who sold the winds in the old days sailors were ruled by whims of the wind. Many strange superstitions grew up as a result. The ancient ruins made

whistles with which to summon favorable or unfavorable winds, which is where we leave to have magic powers over the winds. Even as late as 1814 Bessie Miller of Pomona in the Orkney Islands just north of Scotland made her living by selling winds to sailors.

I'm Seren on the Barque Queen Anne in the morning. Many is the time my wins have filled the Queen Anne sales.

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