THE STUTTERINC BROKER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 48, 29 November 1890, Page 20

THE STUTTERINC BROKER.

Binks is a great stutterer. But when offended he generally manages to gasp out sufficient words to make the offender feel it.

Driving in a light tiap one day he saw a well-known editor, who weighs a great deal above sixteen stone, on the pavement, and drawing up asked him to get in. ‘ I don’t know about that,’ said the editor, eyeing the trap suspiciously, ‘ I’m afraid I’m too big for that thing of yours.’ ‘ Oh, get in,’ said Binks, ‘ p-perhaps you're n-n-not so b-b-big as you think you are !’ The editor got in. Here is the reply which he made to an old friend who met him in the West End. It was known to this person that Binks had made desperate efforts to conquer the stammering habit, and it was once rumoured that he had succeeded. As they conversed a moment his friend noticed that the habit, instead of being conquered was in reality asserting its own mastery over his friend. * Why Bill,’lie said, not in the most delicate way, ‘ you stutter worse now than you did when you lived in Liverpool.’ ‘ H-h-have to,’ answered Mr Binks, laconically, * b-b-b--bigger city.