At the Telephone.
Here is rather a good story, which has also the merit of being true. A large firm in Aberdeen recently engaged as office boy a raw country youth. It was part of his duties to attend to the telephone in his master's absence. When first called upon to answer the bell, in reply to the usual query, "Are you there?" he nodded assent. Again the question came, and still again, and each time the boy gave an answering nod. When the question came for the fourth time, however, the boy, losing his temper, roared through the telephone : "Man, a' ye blin ? I've been noddm me heid aff for t' last hauf 'oor." •
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Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 62
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115At the Telephone. Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 62
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