A MUSICAL MOKE.

NZ Truth, Issue 172, 3 October 1908, Page 6

A MUSICAL MOKE.

What the Musicians Wanted. v t*ancy a -firm like Milner and Thompson advertising like this m Ohristchurchk '/Star" :— . , • ■'.'"Wanted to buy— Sound young horse;: month's ti^al. Price &&>— Milner anil ..Thompson, Piano Depot/ . ' . ■' V)ust imagine, getting a sound young'hbrse for £6 ! and insisting upon a month's *rial. Christchurch horse-dealers have been up against some pretty tough propositions ; they have -sold musical mokes to mugs and unsound animals to "the unsuspfecting ; but they have uever been asked tO furnish h. ','soynd young horse", for sjx gounds. They have, frequently given £6i> for animals of .that description and sold' :£hem for more,, but the organ. oE speech fails them when they find a-prominent..mu?-sicaJ instrument firm advertising m this fashion. Perhaps Milner and Thompson wpuld Hire to buy a man' to, look* after the horse ; as a rule a man can be got ihuch cheaper than a quadruped and the turn-out should be cheap enough for anything. Being musical the firm ,ought, to buy a "roarer" which would advertise thie firm's pianos, through his Avlnd. IE Milner and Thompson were asked to sell a Grand Piano for six pounds they would look surprised, and displeased, yet THEY INSUJoT THE INTELLIGENCE of the community by- advertising -for a •''Sound yOUBg horse" ; price £6. •'The, re-r inarkable part of the business is thaA Milner and Thompson gave £43 for a horse within recent weeks and discovered afterwards that he was a"'toarer." In sporting parlance this' is what is known as .a "musical" moke, and Milner and Thompson being a musical firm, the thing 'looks appropriate someiiow. This paper, ■ even if it suspected, wouldn't mention for worlds who wfts the man m the saleyards who was . .instrumental m sellizig the '.'whistler" tn'the piccolo man, but Yft knows that -jjhe horse was returned to tiie saleyards. probably bectnse tire prad's '<!, npte was sharp, or iis .MARK HAfIVHOUSa ACCENT : '.va?n't Melba'.^, -and the firm sadly relinquished possession, for £15, which was a big sacrifice on the original price. Then fcccutred ij^otiations ■with every .horsedealer in/- Canterbury (or pretty near it), and' m every case -the younger me-mbers of rl-fc fir{ n affixed their "eye-glasses/to their ihleJLl'ijrcnt -pptics^and declared 'ihe animal ■ irf-'be unsatisfactory., Lr l the case of? one -■ir'.ilcr the members 6f*the firm remarked ihai "You can't have us !" i* now* deal being the historical eaiue of .wiis. JT.aen

they examined the horse . with the ignorance of a concertina dealer, and called the rest of the staff out rto view. One very small kid remarked that a prad of that description could be purchased any day at the horse bazaar for £12, whereupon the deal was ■ declared- off. The stipulations with . the dealers so far have been that 4 ' the horse should be "young" and "staunch" and "17 hands high" and pass the vet., 'and- be otherwise as per advertisement. And the price is £6. Ye gods ! A "musical" horse, or a "roarer," or a "whistler," which will harmonise with the piano and the organ and the flute and' other instruments of that character, must* surely be required. '