case in hand?
|\ He opened it.. pulled out a little piano.. and a piano stool.
_| \ Reaching into his pocket and pulled out a mouse. He
(_| | .---. put the mouse on the piano stool, the mouse then
_| / 6_6 began to play a classical piece. The crowd in the
(_| \_ (__\ bar began to gather and look in wonder. The man
// \\ then pulled out a bird and placed him on the piano,
(( )) the Bird then began to sing a Paccini aria in
=======""===""======= crystal clear Italian. A man at the end of the
jgs ||| bar had become very excited about all this and
||| offered the man $100,000 dollars for the whole setup.
'|' The owner said no. The other man offered the money
for just the Bird, exclaiming that he loved that
voice of the bird so much he just ___
had to have it. The owner agreed _ _ .-' '-.
and sold the bird for $100,000. (.)(.)/ \ jgs
The bartender questioned the /00 ;
owner of the setup and told him o_\\-mm-......-mm`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
that the whole thing was worth
millions. "That's okay," the man replied, "the mouse is a ventriloquist".
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