. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . in with, — it will probably take that bunch away: if WHO PAID FOR THE PIANO? 501 you dont, youll probably have another just like it growingon the other side. kt O, you think so, do you ? Well, here is the bunch [pulling out a bag containing $50]; you say if I drinksomething it will take it away, and if I dont I shall haveanother come just like it ? Yah ! Look, then, at the cost of the thing. There is many a man hardly able to jingle two copperstogether after Wednesday nightwho might not, at the close of theyear, have a bunch in his pock
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . in with, — it will probably take that bunch away: if WHO PAID FOR THE PIANO? 501 you dont, youll probably have another just like it growingon the other side. kt O, you think so, do you ? Well, here is the bunch [pulling out a bag containing $50]; you say if I drinksomething it will take it away, and if I dont I shall haveanother come just like it ? Yah ! Look, then, at the cost of the thing. There is many a man hardly able to jingle two copperstogether after Wednesday nightwho might not, at the close of theyear, have a bunch in his pocketor by his side, that would give tohis family a great many comfortsand privileges they are now de-prived of. I remember reading atract describing a carpenter com-ing home from hiswork with his toolson his shoulder, and,as usual, he wentinto a public-houseto drink. He hadthe three pennies inhis hand all ready,but the landladywas talking to her neighbor, and was not ready to serve door was open, and he heard a piano. The landladysneighbor said:. •ive got a terrible buxch on my side. mi have a piano •> Yes, replied the landlady, its a new one, it costseventy guineas; Aramantha Amelia is learning to play it,and we have one of the first masters in the city to teach her. And you have new furniture ? 502 DIP Yuli: sciiXE IX YOUR OWN GRAVY. we have new furniture and our apartments aresplendidly furnished. How did you get all these things?Ill tell you; it s the fools pence that got carpenter thought fur a moment. Fools pence. liesaid, as he looked at the money in his hand. There arethree of them, and he put the money ^_
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