A FEW QUERIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

A FEW QUERIES.

I •He was engaging a now typist, and he bit on his words and hurled thorn at her in a way to frighten, any ordin-ary-girl out of her wits. "Munch .chocolates?" ho asked. "No, sir." , "Make eyes at the fellows whoa yoxi'ro not busy?" ; ' "No, sir." "Know liow to spell such w.ords as 'cat' and 'dog' correctly?" "Yes, sir." "Gossip through the telephone half a dozen times a day?" "No, sir." "Usually tell the office btafl' how much the firm owes, and all the rest of its private business your learn?" i "No, sir." 'He was thinking of something else ' to ask her when sho inserted a spoke ; in the wheel apd put a few queries. - ' ' ]'- Sm ?}} e ? hea P cigars when you're die- ' tatmg?" n»he asked. " • ■ "Why—er—no," ho gasped. > "Take it out of the poor typist when you. have had a row at home and como « ott worst!" "Certainly no-not!" " bus;neLTsbad?» aboUt ' aadflWearwh6ll \ "N-nover." ■ '

"Go for your employees when th'oy "Jo'"fndwdV ' n Wl ° Dlornin S ? " ' "Think you know enough about ' '" grammar and punctuation to apprec- ', •,:% 1 ,?T a £°° d *?*»** when you get ono?'» ' ''j I—l think so." , ' , ' „ -'Want mo to go to work, or-is your ' "'i* time worth so little that »' ' ' • .\« . here," ho broke in entlius. ■ :," v j lasfeeatly; "kindly hang-up your thine* \\A? •na let's get at these lettew." - ->■ >'•>s?s *-.. * ■ v