HERE was a fellow traveling 

 around in that country," said 

 Mr. Nickerson, "with a moral- 

 religious show — a sort of scriptural 

 panorama — and he hired a wooden- 

 headed old slab to play the piano for 

 him. After the first night's per- 

 formance the showman says — 



" ' My friend, you seem to know 

 pretty much all the tunes there are, 

 and you worry along first-rate. But 

 then, don't you notice that some- 

 times last night the piece you hap- 

 pened to be playing was a little rough on the proprieties, so to speak — didn't 

 seem to jibe with the general gait of the picture that was passing at the time, 



?q6 



