TOO LATE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1092, 9 February 1911, Page 22

TOO LATE.

An experienced telegraph operator can, from merely listening to the sound, understand a message on one kind of telegraph instrument without seeing it at all. One day an inspector walked into an office and began to question the clerk in charge.' Suddenly a message, began to arrive, and the clerk sat down to write it. The message was: “Look out for squalls; .the inspector is somewhere on the line, and will be poking his nose in everywhere.” The inspector smiled as he listened to the message, whilst the poor clerk looked quite helpless. His superior, however, went to the instrument, and sent back the answer: “Too late! He has already poked his nose in here.”