WENT AT IT BLINDLY.
'•I don't know that any of the worst writers of history whose calioraphv has been the despair of friend and primers, have over chose to explain whv thev wrote so fearfully, thoueh tliey mayhave done so. says a ( "iitributor to the Sydney '"Evening New-." Probablv this was because tliey wc-e too busy cxplaining the writing. B;i ■ an explanation that might even s icd some 1 irrlit on the methods of stick classic offenders a- Horace Greeley and others, recently staggered the editor <>f a .Sydney publication who was dealing wit h the efforts of competitors in a r-ontest run by hi= paper. After vadincr through a somewhat .-lormv pa-sage of the tangled script. 'ic came i:j>on the following naive statement: 'I hope >011 wii! excuse scribble. As a luatter of fact my eyes have been very bail and I wrote half of this with them shut.'"
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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150WENT AT IT BLINDLY. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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