Doing Out His Time.
“I suppose you'll hardly believe it.” said the Colonel, who was writing,the libretto of a comic opera, “but I began work right after dinner last night, and worked very hard till three o’clock this morning on eight lines." “That’s nothing,” calmly remarked the Major, “a friend of mine has been working for the last six years on one sentence.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 67
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63Doing Out His Time. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 67
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