MAGISTERIAL HUMOUR
QUOTES MARK TWAIN (.Special to THE SUN.) WAGANUI, Thursday. For the first time ror many years It was necessary to have an interpreter to read letters written in Arabic in court to-day. A local business .nan acted for a plaintiff in an action, and he stated there were certain portions he could not read owing to the badlywritten characters. Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., remarked that Mark Twain once learned Arabic for a few months and they all stood round while he interpreted. There was one old toothless man who could not understand a word of it. but the others said that he spoke “gum arabic.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 16
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