Show HU hit waterloo well since you yon ask as k me as a friend to tel tell lyou yon frankly on my mind I 1 may as well confess to you that I 1 am aia in deep financial distress said johnson to an acquaintance the other evening 1 I am done up rm im a whipped rooster rooster I 1 aint in it rm im completely knocked out but ind pre got to mako a change of some som kind why rm ria surprised to hear this wd eaid th the 0 friend 1 I thought you yon were prospering nicely when I 1 lait spring how did your reverses come about i in we moved into a ne new net T flat in may s and i nd ax another iother family moved in just overhead we were friendly for a time till they tented rented a secondhand piano we thought wed play even and eo 80 w we e rented one they began giving their daughter lessons and in order to elezi up the noise we followed salt guit they bought their boys boya a cornet comet and a snare drum and we got ours oura atrom a bone and abass drum then they bought 4 a horse fiddle an accordion accor deon and a ardy hurdy gurdy and the way its been going ever since until rin im done up ive got two wagon loads of noise making instruments at my house but my neighbor goes right on da buying everything new and noisy that he hearse hears of and to make matters worse hes got children enough to play all the instruments euta at one time 9 I 1 bad the money rd drown dron that man out it if I 1 had bad buy gabriels Ga briers trumpet to do it with but im at the endom end of my string and I 1 confess conf ebs 1 that 10 ive got lo retreat reif im awful sorry 0 they ever rented that old piano chicago times |