Year: 1859

A "good one" is told Of newly married
couple who started housekeeping short time
since, which We think, so long as we do not give
the names of thu 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 our
frst-class establishments, and if we may believe
the gentlemanly salesman who officiated on the
occasion, 1t 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 employer of the establishment. After
getting everything necessary to enter on the
duties OF house keeping, the attention of the
couple was first directed to q trial of the new
article. A fire was accordingly started by the
mistress of the house the morning following her
entry on her responsible duties, when greatly to
her surprise, and not a little to the chagrin Of
her liege lord the flames became extingushed
and the room filled 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 diff
Guilty existed, it was mutually agreed that they
had been sold and completely taken in by the
stove dealer.


With indignation flashing in his eyes, the
purchaser forthwith started for the stove dealers
establishment, where he related the inability OF
himself and wife to use the stove, and demanded
that his money should be Immediately refunded
him. Greatly astonished at what he had heard
the dealer called in the person who was en-
ployed to put up the stove, who assured him, in
answer to his interrogations that he had left the
stove in tip top order, and that unless the chin
ney was stuffed up, there was no reason under
the sun why it should not preform 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 re-
fund the price of the stove in case it did not suit
but that he would go further and give him the
stove gratis if it was 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 readily assented, chow
could he do otherwise after the very liberal offer
OF the formerly while his ewes glistencd with
satisfaction at the prospect of having a new stove
to sell for old iron. Starting for home IN COM
pany with the man sent by the dealer, 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 slrlon steak or small sized pig, greatly
to the CONSERVATION of the happy, or we should
say, for the moment, unhappy pair. When the
man sent to examine the stove had returned to
the establishment, the dealer made inquiry as to
the condition in which he found the afore-
mentioned article. The answer, which set the
establishment in roar,-we give as it was ut.
tered, was: "Why," says he, "what do you
think? The darnod fools had made fire in Mt
Oreu of the stone"