Reporter's Blunder.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2902, 17 January 1911, Page 2

Reporter's Blunder.

i " Here," said the city editor to the new j reporter, " there's something wrong about this storr of the murder." " What is it f" the new man asked. " I don't know what it is, but there's | something the matter with it. I've read it through twice and can't make it out." " I said 'the murderer struck the deadly blow with some blunt instrument.' didn't I? " Yes , that's here, all right." " Did I say there were eyidencea of a deadly struggle ?' "Yes, you're got that in three times." " Well, I can't imagine what it is that Pre 9tnitted. I remember saying that the * murderer stole upon his victim like a eat approaches a mouse,' so that can't be what you missed." The city editor scratched his head and took another hasty glance at the copy. "By Jore!" he exclaimed, "I're got it. You didn't say 'he was felled like an ox!' " Then the new reporter slunk away, knowin": that he had committed a blunder which could be offset only by yea-s of good work.