Went to Remonstrate

Otago Witness, Issue 2362, 1 June 1899, Page 61

Went to Remonstrate

HOW HER NEIGHBOUR PLAYS THE

PIANO MORE THAN EVER,

I have heard of a muaic-loving young woman who was so much annoyed by an adjacent " flatter's " manipulation of an out-of-tune piano that in very desperation she knocked at her disturber's door.

" Come in," was the summons.

She went in accordingly, and saw two people — mother and daughter — the latter seated at an old-fashioned piano, and playing away like a fireman afc a conflagration. The mother rose. "Yes? Veil?" Germans evidently. "I live in the next flat," said the caller.

' Ah, yes ! Tina, clis is our neighbour." Tina arose, made a curtsey that almost caused tho ends of her flaxen tails to touch the floor, and then stood open-eyed. " I — I — come," said the visitor very nerviously, "to — to speak about your daughter's piano playing."

The mother's face beamed with joy. She seized the little girl and hugged her to her breast.

" Ach, Tina !" she cried gleefully. " Vat I tell you, eh ? You make a sensation — yes ! I knew you vould I"

Then she turned to the astonished now arrival.

" An' vat you tink? She never had no music teacher ! I learn her all dot myself."

Tina nodded with a blushing face.

'• Ach, Tina ! Get some coffee cake and coffee out. An' vile we drink it you shall play dot Valdteufel valtz do your Uncle Chris vos so fond of already."

But the complaining one made an 3xcuse, and escaped in a dazed condition.

The music next door is doubled now, of course, and she has about made up her mind to move. — New York Herald.