| Show H TIER LUCK lound BATTLING piaia A SMALL GOLD MINE provision some one had made for kalny day calmly appropriated by professor untroubled by conscience piano tuners as a rule are the lest people on earth said the professor and anere was a chorus of affirmatives from every one around the table the professor Is the head tuner in a big piano house an I 1 he was having the boys out for i 1 atle spread I 1 never by any easy money in my life but once he said and that of course was by accident when I 1 was a cub in the profession I 1 was sent out to a swell establishment on prairie avenue the lady of the rouse said that the piano rattled and it ure did I 1 looked it over carefully on the top of it and in the back of the case and when the lady left the cooil I 1 slipped out the board that fits against the ivories and what do you think I 1 found therea I 1 found a bright fa gold piece well said the youngest of the crowd called the kid I 1 d rattle too it I 1 had that much money about me you bet but that gasn wasn t all the prote sor went on underneath the ivor es pulled out two ten dollar bills now a fact some one had bulled 40 in that box tor a rainy day per haps and had borgot about it weil I 1 slipped it in my pocket liht quick slapped the old piano to etier again and played bedelia and ang it too at the top of my voice I 1 was happy you bet well the lady came in when she heard me singing and said something about my being a crackerjack piano tuner or something and of course one interrupted you gave the lady the W oh yes of course oh yes edid the professor mockingly I 1 ave back nothing well but began another oh I 1 know what you are goin to sy exclaimed the prof yos I 1 did I 1 charged her 3 50 for fixing that piano and it never hurt me afterward either I 1 did it quite cheerfully and the professor gathered up the checks that lay at the other fel lows plates and led the way to the cigar stand record hei aid |
