PUTTING IT POLITELY.

New Zealand Tablet, 24 July 1919, Page 45

PUTTING IT POLITELY.

“Eliza,” said the mistress, “please go next door and ask them if they will kindly stop playing for a while. Mr. Humphrey has a bad headache. But be sure to be polite.” A minute later Eliza was admitted next door.

“Missis’ compliments,” she said, “and she’d be obliged if the person tryin’ to play on an out-of-tune pianna would dam stockings or something.” “But this is pur house,” returned the mistress of it, “and we are not debarred from choosing our own amusements.” .

“It’s a pity you ain’t,” came from the top step, “When any one ain’t satisfied with two hours’ pickin’’

out ‘Keep the Home Fires Burnin’ ’ with two fingers on a pianna that ain’t reliable, it’s high time somebody interfered an’ told you them fires had got to be dampened down a bit. And you are lucky that I was told to do it polite.”