Polynesian., 1859-07-23
Buying a New Stove.

A "good one " is told of a newly married cou-
pie who started housekeeping short time since,
which think, so long we do not tell the
names of the parties, will bear " telling again"
in the Times. Among other articles of household
furniture purchased by the new hOuse-keepers, the
most necessary of course was new cooking stove.
1t was procured at one of first class establish
ments, and if we may believe the gentlemanly clerk
who ofhciated the occasion, it was warranted to
be one of the most complete articles OF the kind
ever invented. Home was the new stove sent, and
properly put up by an employee of the establish
ment. After getting everything necessary to en-
ter on the duties of house keeping the attention
of the couple was first directed to trial of the
new article. A fire was accordingly started by the
mistress of the house the morning following her
entry on the responsible duties, when greatly to
her SURPRISE and not little to the chagrin of her
lege lord the flames became extinguished and
the room filed with smoke. What could be the
reason that the stove did not draw neither could
divine, and after looking in the stove around the
stove, and up the chimney, and being put to their
wits end to ascertain where the difficulty existed,
it was mutually agreed that they had been 5 sold
and completely taken in by the stove dealer.
With Indignation flashing In bis eyes, the pur-
chaser forthwith started for the stove dealers es
tablishmen, where he related the inability of him
self and wife to use the stove, and demanded that
his money should be Immediately refunded him.
dealer called in the person who was employed to
pnt up the stove, who assured him, in answer to
his interrogation, that he had left the stove in
tip top order, and that unless the chimney was
stuffed up, there was no reason under the sun why
it should not perform all the duties for which it
was constructed. The purchaser was thereupon
assured by the dealer that he would not only stand
up to his agreement to refund the price of the
stove in case it did not suit but he would 90 fur
ther and give him the stove gratis if it in the
condition represented by the former. The dealer
proposed to send one of his men to examine the
" provoking article, to which the purchaser read
lily assented chow could he do otherwise after the
very liberal offer of the former y while his eyes
glstened with satisfaction at the prospect OF hav-
ing new stove to sell for old iron. Starting for
home in company with the man sent by the deal
er, it was not long before they reached the scene
of the trouble. The difficulty was easily remedied
"a fire was made in the stove, and it was not long
before everything was in readiness for cooking
either surloin steak or small sized pig greatly 70
the CONSERVATION of the happy, or we should say,
for the moment, unhappy pair. When the man
sent 10 examine the stove had returned to the es-
tablishment, the dealer made inquiry as to the
condition in which he found the aforementioned
article. The answer, which set the establishment
in roar,-we give as it was uttered, was: why"
saws he, what do you Think The darned fools
had made fire in the OUen Of the stOUe -