THE REASON WHY.
A famous pianist was to give a recital in a large hall. As the audience was filing in a man staggered up to the door and presented a ticket. "You can't go in," said the official in charge; 'you are not in a fit condition." "Didn't I pay for my ticket?" asked the man. "Isn't it in order?" "It's all right," was the reply, "but you —you are all wrong—you are intoxicated." intoxicated? Of course I'm intoxicated. If I wasn t, do you think I'd come to a piano recital?" '
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21
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93THE REASON WHY. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21
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