A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1692, 5 June 1874, Page 2

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Our neighbour Chubb (says. Max Adeler) has not'much"of an ear for music, but he has spent a considerable sum in having his daughter taught how to hammer a piano, and he is proud of her accomplishments. He was talking with us over the fence the other day when a series of dreadful sounds came from his piano through the open parlour window. Presently Chubb remarked, "D'you hear that Adeler P Just listen to that will you ? That's -what I call music." Then there \ were fa If erf, additional bangs on the instrument, a flourish or two, then more discordant thumping. "Splendid, isn't it?" said Chudd; Mary Jane's bustin'the music 1 right out of that machine you -observe.^ Them's the Stiauss waltzes, 1^ believe, she's rastlin' with now." Justlis-| ten.,''. . W^e, remarked that from the ener* gy displayed Mary Jane at least seemed to be in earnest. But whetHfer she was treating Mr Strauss exactly right was an open question., ; "I.don't know nothing about music, Adeleri"observed Chubb; ** but I kin tell; the real .thing when I hear it, and I can sit and hear Mary Jane play them waltzes, ; aud the Maiden's Prayer until it makes me cry like a child." We asserted that, if she played those compositions as she was doing now, it would make anybody cry. A-deaf mute would shed tears. "Listen to that now, will you ?" exclaimed Chubb, as a wild tumult of sound came from-the parlour;" isn't that splendid? If I didn t know; it wai Mary Jan« a-tearin' ar und among them waltzes TdvthinM it was;one of them fel* lows who plays at the concerts. Let's go; over,-and hean''t^:;W:i3^entered the house and sought the parlour, Mary <Jane- was nowhere to be seen, biiifr to the infinite disgust of Chubb, there was a led haired man, with a fist as big as % loaf of bread, tuning the f p'iafio; Chubb asked us not: t0 tell,ianyjbody, and we^ won't.' It is related here, in confidence and must go ; ny, farther. ,\