The San Francisco call., 1897-03-18
QUEER NOTICES TO QUIT.

Some of the Reasons for Moving Given
by Dissatisfied Tenants.
Draughty rooms. smoky chimneys, high
rents and ghosts are classical reasons for
giving up occupancies, but the same can
hardly be said of the excuses made by
many people who develop desire to get
out of their holdings.
man who has had the letting OF houses
for twenty years recently recounted a few
of his experiences in connection with this
phase of his occupation, and a selection
OF them may prove interesting reading to
many.
al can't stand it any longer" was the
remark of man who came with his no.
tice in his hand. 1.-THE people in the next
house live on bloaters! It's herrings for
breakfast herrings for dinner and her.
rings for tea. and we find it impossible to
open a door or a window for the odOr that
emanates from them. 1t permeates every
room in the house, and all our belongings
smell of it. I'll have no more of the
wretched thing; so you can look out for
another tenantP'
1, was quite a different reason that
lady had tor quitting tenement that she
had occupied for three years and half.
At the back of the house she rented was a
lawn. adorned with fower-bed and an
arbor, which formed a delightful retreat
on a summers afternoon. Here the lady
spent many q pleasant half hour, and
would have done so again, but that her
peace of mind had been rudely disturbed
by a neigh Dor, who, developing a sudden
hobby, erected an apiary in his garden,
and devoted himself enthusiastically to
the manufacture of honey. An occasional
swarm of bees round the lady'S ears, just
as she was in the middle of siesta, was
more than she cared for, hence her deter
mination to go.
1t is not an unusual thing for person
to give up a dwelling in consequence of
Its contiguity to a public house, but to
leave one for the exactly opposite reason
| is a much rarer occurrence. Such, how
| ever, was the motive assigned by an artl-
san for getting out OF his cottage. Its
| like this" he said, in explanation. II
never keep beer in the house; it gets fat
and Improbable under the paror stairs.
| like my ale fresh drawn and served up
| in something like condition, and find
| the public's the place to get this. Now,
| there isn't licensed house within quar-
ter of a mile where / live, and 440 yards
| Except for sprinter) is too far to fetch a
| pint o. dinner beer before the potatoes
| get cold. You can put my shanty on the
To Let list
| S1perstitlous tenants are people that the
| house agent has to reckon with. A newly
developed district on the borders of a
| provincial town was lately taken in hand
| by the local authority and the houses
| numbered. A tenant whose house got the
number '13" went in hot haste to the
agent with u notice to quit, being sure, he
said, that ill luck would be his portion if
he stayed. In similar manner another
nervous one gave up a house because for
three nights in succession he heard the
| 'swhoo- whoo" of a iuckless owl in some
trees near by.
A facetious tenant wound up his quit
notice with the following laconic SEN
tence: .'The doors won't shut and the
windows won topen; the fires won't draw
up and the blinds won't draw down; the
water won't turn on and the gas Won't
turn off; the rooms are too small and the
cracks in the walls too large; the rent is
too high and my income too low."
There is little in the giving up of a
house to call forth poetic feeling and sem
tIment. but a. tenant once accompanied
his notice to leave with the subioined
effusion:
The best of friends must part; tits ever so; -
Y our house and are friends. and content
Then Why not stay you urge. tbs this: although
like your house do not like your rent!
London Tid-Birs.