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Show TUNES FAIL TO KILL; MAY BUY. Aged Flute Player M-akes 8ure by Trying Try-ing Score of Pieces. A llttlo old man entered a largo music shop nnd nsked tho assistant to show him n book of fluto music. "Hero, sir, Is a very flno solectlon," said tho assistant, "nnd cheap at half a dollar, seeing that It contains no fewer than 50 nlrs." Tho old man took tho book, opened It, nnd laid It on a shelf. Then ho took his fluto out of his cost pocket, scrowed it togother and began to play softly tho first tuno in tho book. When ho had finished tho first tuno ho turned tho pngo nnd played tho second. Then ho played the third. An hour Inter ho was still playing. Tho nsslBtnnt thought it was tlmo to hurry him up a bit. "Well, sir," ho sold, "do you think tho book wlllsult you?" "I llko theso so far very much, thank you," said tho old mnn, putting his Instrument to his lips again, "but I have only played half tho tunes bo far!" |