Whe re Shorthand Fails..
It was an houi or more after midnight. There was a furious ringing at the door bell.
A few minutes elapsed, and then a head was thrust out of a second-itorey window. "What do you want?" "This is where Mr Speecher lives, isn't it?"
"Yes; I am Mr Speedier." "You delivered a particularly interesting address before the Advancement of Mankind Club this evening on 'The Dead of 1905'?" "I did." "You spoke of a noted man, named Alcibiados M'Gibbenyi"
"I want you to tell me whether he was a Protestant or a Roman Catholic?"
"He, was a Protestant. What " "That's all I want to* know. I'm tha shorthand reporter that ■ took down the speech, and I couldn't tell from my notes whether you said that at the ago of 27 he entered the ministry or a monastery. Ever so much obliged to you. Goodnight I"'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 79
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