WORD FOR WORD.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 25, 13 November 1930, Page 12

WORD FOR WORD.

• fle had found fault with his shorthand typist tor^ altering a sentence in one of t&e lebters he had dictated. He* re-ply was that she thought he meant what she had written.! "I don *if want you' to tidnk,' '■ retorted the great man sharply. (tl want you to take down my words accurately and th.en put tihem into type on the ma>6liine, neither adding nor leaving o.ut anything I may say." Uaiter in the afternoon the typist brought back the follorndng letter for signature:— ' 'Dear Smyth, iSpell it with, ay, although that pure swank on his pait, of course. In answer to yoivr l&btqr &£ —-Look up the date. We can quote you^—Tell me, Walter, what's tih.e most we can charge this old bligihter Very •well. We can quite you £10 a ton for tftte goods free on board If he accepts' we shail 'have to -make sure of our money beforehand, for-I don't truafc ihim Ajwaiting the pleasure of yotir esteemed order,—^Tours faithfully