Hard Earned Wages

An old church in Belgium decided to repair its properties, and employed an artist to touch up a large painting. Upon presenting this bill, the committee in charge refused payment unless the details were specifled, whereupon he presented the items as follows: To correcting the ten commandnients. - $5.12 Embellishing Pontius Pílate and putting new ribbons on his net 3.02 Putting new tail on the rooster of St. Peter, and mending his comb 2.20 Repluming and gilding left wing of Guardian Angel - 5.18 Washing the servant of the high priest, and putting carmine on his cheéks - - 5.02 Renewing Heaven, adjusting the stars andcleaning the moon - 7.14 Touching up Purgatory and restoring lost souls - 3.06 Brightening up the flatnes of Heil, putting new tail on the devil, rnending his left hoof, and doing several odd jobs for the damned 7.14 Rebordering the robes of Herod and adjusting his wig - 4.00 Taking the spots off the sun of Tobias - - - 1.30 Putting a new stone in David's sling, enlarging the head of Goliat, and extending Saul's legs - - - 6.13 Putting earrings in Sarah's ears 1.71 Decorating Noah's ark, and putting a head on Shem - 3.31 Mending the shirt of the prodigal and cleaning his ear - - 2.39 The bill was paid. $56.72 Mr. Murphy - Yes, sonny, I've bad a fruit staud in this block for thirty years. Tim Ryan - If you'd have advertised you might have owued the block by this time.-