A CAUTION.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 20

A CAUTION.

Great Editor : • I advertised for a private secretary, whose chief duties will be to sit in the ante-room anti keep poets, bores, and other undesirable persons at bay. The position requires something of a diplomat as well as a fluent linguist. You would not do at all.’ Ricketts (who stutters a trifle): ‘That’s wh -wh - where you make a mum-mum-mistake, squire ! As sus-sus-soon’s a bub-hore cuc-cuc-came in I’d bug-bug-begin to tell a 1-1-long s-s-story, and before I’d gug-gug-got half through, bub-bub-between whu-wh-what I’d sus-sus-say and w-what I’d tut-try to sus-say, I’d have him cuc-cuc-completely tut-tired out. I ain’t mum-mum-much of a dud-diplomat perhaps, but as a 1-1-linguist I’m a cuc-cuc-caution !