MARK TWAIN AND THE OFFICE BOY

New Zealand Tablet, 29 August 1912, Page 62

MARK TWAIN AND THE OFFICE BOY

Mark Twain did not cherish a fondness for the average office boy. He had.an idea that the genus was insufferable, and invariably when the humorist sallied forth into some business office there was immediate armed hostility between him and the boy. One day Mark went to see a friend at his office, and the office boy on guard, in icy tones, said: ‘ Whom do you wish to see?’ Mark mentioned his friend’s name. ‘What do you want to see him about?’ came next from the

boy. Mark Twain immediately froze up, and then with a genial smile he said, ‘ Tell him, please, I want to ask his hand in matrimony. ’