SHE SPELT BY EAR.
“See here!” exclaimed the senior member, addressing a pretty stenographer recently appointed to the office staff, “ you’ye spelt sugar ‘ s-u-g-g-a-r.’ ”
The young woman looked critically at the typewritten page. Finally her face brightened. “So I have,” she replied, as sweetly as the article itself. “ How careless of me ! I don’t see how I came to leave out the ‘ h.’ ”
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1065, 4 August 1910, Page 23
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63SHE SPELT BY EAR. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1065, 4 August 1910, Page 23
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