A QUAINT OLD BILL.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2855, 9 April 1878, Page 3

A QUAINT OLD BILL.

The following curious account for restoring a chapel was engraved in French on a watch crystal in the Swiss department of the Vienna Exposition. The whole was placed on a scroll less than an inch square. A painter had been employed to repair a number of pictures in a convent; he-did it, and presented his bill in full for 59 francs and 11 centimes to the curate, who refused to pay-it, saying that L the committee would require a full detail. The painter produced it as follows :— - Corrected and revised the Ten Commandments, 5 francs and 12 centimes; embellished and renewed Pontius Pilate, and put a new ribbon in his bonnet, 3 francs 6 centimes; put a new tail on the rooster of St. Peter, and mended bis comb, 3 francs 20.centimes; re-plumed and gilded the left wing of the Guardian 'Angel, 4 francs IT centimes; washed the servant of the High Priest,^and put carmine on his.cheeks, 5 franks 12 centimes; renewed Heaven, adjusted two stars, gilded tbe Sun and renewed the Moon, 7 francs 14 centimes; reanimated the Ftimeg of Purgatory, and restored some souls, 6 francs 6 centimes; restored the Flames of Hell, put a new tail on the Devil, mended his left hoof, and did several jobs for the Damned, 4 francs 10 centimes; put new spatter dishes on the Son of Tobias, and dressing on his back, 2 francs; cleaned the ears of Balaam's A si, and shod him, 3 francs 7 centimes; put ear-rings in the ears of Sarah, 2 francs 4 centimes; rebordered the robe of Herod, and readjusted his wig, 4 francs 4 centimes; put a new stone in David's Sling, enlarged ~ the head of Goliath, and extended his legs, 3 francs 2 centimes; decorated . Noah's Ark, 3 francs; mended the shirt of tbe Prodigal Son, and cleaned the pigs, 4 francs 9 centimes. Total, 59 francs 11 centimes.