Show HI waterloo well since you ask me as a friend to tell you frankly on ray my mind I 1 may aswell as well confess to you that I 1 am in deep financial distress said johnson johnon to an acquaintance theother tho other eve evening nan I 1 1 I am done up ap im a whipped rooster I 1 dai aint in it rin im completely knocked out and ive got to make a c hange change of some bome kind why im fm surprised to hear this said the friend 1 I thought you were prospering nicely when I 1 met you last spring how did your reverses come about in this way we moved into anew a new flat in may and another family moved in just overhead we wera were friendly for a tuna time till they rented a secondhand piano we thought wed play even and sowe BO we rented one they began giving givin their daughter lessons and in order to even up the noise we followed suit they bought their boys boya a cornet comet and a snare us drum and we got ours oura a trombone and a bass abass drum then they bought a horse fiddle an accordion accor deon and a hurdy gurdy and the way its been going ever since until rin im done up ave got two I 1 wagon loads of noise noisa making instruments at my house hous abut but my neighbor goes right on buying i everything gewand new and noisy that he hearson hears hear of and to make matters worse hes got children enough to play all the instruments t one time if I 1 had the money rd fd drown that mau man out if I 1 had to buy gabriels trumpet to do it with but im at the end of my string and I 1 confess that ive got to retreat im awful sorry they ever rented that old piano qi chi cago times |