Insuring the Fiano.
! It concerns a woman who entered a 1 Dublin shop, and displaying a prosperousj looking pocket-book said : ''I want a good pianny for me daughter." : "What style of instrument do you prefer?" asked the salesman, leading the way j to an upright. I "Niver a happorth do I care about shtyle, so long as it's a strong case. Have ' yez army wid' iron cases?" I "No, ma'am ; but all our cases are made extra strong." ! "How much is this pianny on the hire 6>-stem?"
"The price of this r>iano is forty pounds," answered the salesman. "The instalment would be a pound a month." "Insure the pianny, and I'll take it." "Well, really, ma'am. the purchaser usually insures the instrument ; but, to close the bargain, we'll insure this piano and agree to take -all risks."
"Ye see, betwme me and you," the purchaser explained, as 6he deposited the receipt for the first instalment in her pocket, "I'm glad to be aisy about the insurance, becaze I want to get the better of me ould man. He said that if I brought a pianny into the house he'd smash it wid an axe — and, faith, he's the by to do it."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2668, 3 May 1905, Page 79
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