Head Work.
"Yes," remarked a stranger to the editor, as the two sat on the verandah looking out upon, the rolling sea, " head work is very trying, and the man who earns his living by it needs a vacation now and then."
" True," said the editor, " head work is very trying. I find it so, especially when the hours are long." " How many hours a day do you work?" asked the stranger. "Four," paid the editor, "Heavens ! I work 10." "Head-woi'k?" "Yes, every bit of it." "Newspaper, or general literature?'*
"Neither.
I'm a barber."
Then the editor — for editors are not all wise — shut himself up as close as the umbrella which he carried.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 67
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114Head Work. Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 67
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