Willing to Pay.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 8

Willing to Pay.

Patiently the old gentleman had been sitting through the ordeal of hearing the voice-culture student in the bed-sitting-room below practising with a zeal which left no room for criticism, but with a talent by no means so kindly described. Finally, he crept softly down the stairs and rapped at the door 'of the young woman's room. "1 can't come in," he said, in response to an invitation, "but I simply came to tell you of a friend of mine who would, T know, be willing to pay almost any amount of money to hear you sing." Overwhelmed with joy, the lnxiy begged the kind old gentleman to write his friend's name and address on a piece of paper. When he had gone upstairs she looked at the slip of paper which he bad handed back to h«r inscribed and neatly folded. It read, "John W. Jow^, Asylum for the Deaf."