TEACHING HIM HIS BUSINESS.
"I've just the house to suit you, sir, containing five rooms about the Bize you require. Will you walk alon,sv and view it?" genially said the houseagent. The House, when reached, proved to be in very bad repair, and the prospective tenant, slightly annoyed, returned to the agent's. "I'm surprised," he said, "at your Bending me that distance to see a sixroomed house, when I distinctly told you! I only required five rooms." "Excuse me, sir," answered the agent, "it is only a five-roomed house." "Pardon ine, it is not." "But I say it is," retorted the agent, somewhat heatedly. "There are two rooms upstairs and th'rea dowa. That's five, isn't it?" "Yes, but what about the room for improvement? That's bigger than anyof the others!" facetiously answered his client.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 749, 27 February 1915, Page 3
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134TEACHING HIM HIS BUSINESS. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 749, 27 February 1915, Page 3
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