AT THE TELEPHONE.
A business house of Aberdeen recently vaA gaged as office boy a raw country yoatikj: Ie was part of his duties to attend to tiia telephone in his master's absence. Whenf first ca|led upon to answer the bell, in re-^ ply (to the, usual query, " Are you there?" I*l nodded assent. Again the question ;caane, ; and still again, and each time tine boy gave an answering mod. when- the question, came for the fourth time, (however, the boy, losing his temper, roared" through the tele^ phone— "' Man, ay e blin? I've been' noddin? me 'heid aff for t' last hau!f 'oor i" ■ •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7014, 1 February 1901, Page 3
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105AT THE TELEPHONE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7014, 1 February 1901, Page 3
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