THE BUSY MAN'S ROMANCE.
He was a very busy man, and she was a very pretty girl. She insisted upon having a love letter every day. She got it.
"You write the loveliest letters, Sear!" she, said. "And when you are bo very, very busy all the time, I think it is splendid of you to think.of me."
"I don't forget you/ he replied. "My secretary has instructions to write you a letter for t me to sign svery morning. He is a most efficient and .capable young man." "And you don't know how I appreciate the flowers and sweets you send me every day,"
"Im glad you get them. I told my secretary to make a memo, to send >W some every Saturday."
"How systematic I And it is so thoughtful of you to think of the plays I like best and the books I prefer."
"It's a pleasure to know you are pleased. My'secretary gets the tickets* and picks out the books. He is a very capable #fellow.'^_ Two months later the very busy man said:
"Hang him i I don't mind so much ( his eloping with my fiancee, but how in thunder can I break in another secretary ?";;
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 4000, 29 November 1918, Page 4
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201THE BUSY MAN'S ROMANCE. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 4000, 29 November 1918, Page 4
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