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Show LANDLORD KNEW THE GAME Spared His Tenant the Enumeration of the Time-Honored and Yearly "Bluff." "I have called to collect the rent," said the landlord. "Yes," replied the lady of the house, "come in. Now, before I give you the money this month, I" "Just a minute, madam," said the landlord. "I can save time for you. I know the parlor isn't fit for a pig to live in, the dining ronm wall paper is a shock to people of refinement, the kitchen walls are a disgrace, and the back porch is a menace to life and limb. I'm also aware that you won't stay here another month unless the barber-shop wallpaper in the back bedroom bed-room is changed to something in a delicate pink, and I'm next to the fact that you're ashamed to have people look at such gas fixtures as I have provided. pro-vided. I'm going to paint the front and back porches and let it go at that." "Thank you very much," said the lady meekly. "You have saved me a lot of trouble. That is all we really expected to have done, "but I was afraid that I should have to make the same old bluff to get that much o?it of you." Detroit Free Press. |