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B._ (_pregnantly_), You _order_ it, Sir--_insist_ on having it. Then
you'll _know_ what it tastes like! [_He devotes himself to his soup._
_Culch._ (_with his eyes lowered--to himself_). I _must_ look up in another
minute--and then! [_He shivers._
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"TYPICAL DEVELOPMENTS."
One of our very occasional contributors, whose valuable time is mainly
occupied by the composition of successful novels, sends us the following,
written by his type-writer. From this specimen it will be gathered what a
real economy in correcting letter-press a type-writer must be.
[Illustration]
Dear Editor
I send you my new book to reed and if you likit pleaase give me a
legup. The story of my other book was anti-turkish but has not yet been
probited in Constanple though it has reachd its tetenth edition, at
least the ninth is neraly all shrubshcribed bedfore it isrereaddy. If
my pullisher is not sasfide oughtbe. Never use pen now only typwritr so
much quickerin tellgible convenent an leshble
Yours
S SMUGGYNS
It strikes us that either the machine stammers, or that it was, at the time
of writing, somewhat the worse for liquor, or that it is a very truthfully
phonetic-writing but somewhat indiscreet amanuensis.
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