Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-24
PARTNERS IN TROUBLE.
And the Angry Man Had only His
Trouble for His Ex-
ertfOn

Star.
"Is this Groundrent & Co.'s Of
fice?" he inquired snappily at the
calm-looking man who was leaning
back in the revolving chair before the
big desk in the middle of the room.
"Yes," replied the calm-looking man.
swell, say, look here" SAID the an
gry-looking man, in tone of some
violence, my names Digup, and my
wife rented one of the houses in that
row of yours up on j street last week.
She rented it with the express stipu-
lation that you'd put it in first-class
repair. It's the one numbered 1900
street, as | s'pose you'll remember.
Well, we moved into the house yester-
day, as we agreed to do, and we found
that nary lick had been done to-
ward getting the house in proper re-
pair Now, | want to know what
kind of way that is to treat people,
and l want to tell you that"
"Well," interrupted the calm-looling
man, with far-away smile "if your
wife made any such agreement as you
state with this firm, why"
Look a-here," exclaimed the angry
looking man, beginning to shout, 81
want you to distinctly understand that
I'm not in the habit of letting people
doubt my word, and when / tell you
that my wife had an explicit under
standing with you that you were to
fix that house up properly, don't pro-
pose to permit you to doubt what I
say, and there's no occasion for you
to try to crawfish out of that stipu-
lation, and"
whats the trouble with the
house," cut in the calm-looking man
seated in the revolving chair. '"Be-
cause if it's in the same condition as
the one L"
whats the matter with the
house?" growled the angry-looking
man, looming over the calm-looling
man in the revolving chair. There's
every blamed thing the. matter with
it. The papers peeling off the parlor
walls, in the first place, as you very
well know, and the inside woodwork
doesn't look as if it's been PAINTED
since the deluge. There's a big hunk
broken off the balustrade, and"
That's quo err" said the calm-look-
ing man, reflectively; "there's a piece
broken off the balustrade in my"
"Queer - 1 should think it was
queer!" snorted the wrathful-looking
man. "And it's confounded sight
queerer that you people faithfully
promised to attend to all of these re-
pairs and that absolutely nothing has
been done to put the house in habi-
table condition. We moved into the
miserable shack under the natural
presumption that the repairs had been
attended to, and-say, what did you
mean by telling my wife that you
were going to rut in exposed plumb
ing, with a porcelain bath tub, when
the bathroom hasn't been so much as
touched? Hey?"
'If there was any promise made to
your wife that there'd be exposed
plumbing, why, that's whole heap
more than"
"Any promise made to my wife,
you say. Look here, my friend, what
the dickens do you mean by sitting
there and trying to sneak out of what
you said in that way? You know
blamed well that all of these promises
were made, and that YOU told my wife
that the house would be put in tip
top shape from cellar to garret The
whole outfit needs repainting and re-
papering, and half the windows in
the house won't go either up or down,
and the doors either decline to open
or refuse to be closed, and the cellar
needs to be cleaned out, and there are
three broken panes in the kitchen win-
dows, and the kitchen range won't
burn, and the furnace is in such a
battered condition that nothing short
of a new one'll 90, and the back stairs
are rickety and need bracing, and
"Well," once again interrupted the
calm-loolIing man sitting in the re-
volving chair, ''if you managed to gel
this firm to promise to make all oil
those repairs you mention-now, be
good enough not to interrupt me fol-
minute, won't you-if your wife was
clever enough to induce this real es
tate firm to promise to II axe all o'
these repairs. then it's o darned sight
more than my wife's been able to dc
for two years, and that's no piece o.
sheet music, either I'm the tenant
of 1911 street, right next door tC
you, you know, and my wife and
have been hammering away at thi!
firm of agents for more'n two years
to get 'em to make repairs, but with
out any success, and came down thi!
morning to make another effort.
guess Mr.. Groundrent'll be in shortly
and if you nail him and succeed il
getting him TO fix your house up, why
I'll just follow up your trail and he'l
have to fix my house, too, or I'll"
But the angry tenant of 1909 ia!
street, when he found out how dis
mally he had been wasting his breath
walked out of the office, grinding
lot of the top dressing off his teetl
as he went.
To Mend Glass.
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! in stone mortar or on a painter
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