COSTLY TELEPHONING
,- There ia a.pertain inembci.of Conarws who stutters except when he makes a, speech 'or "tnlif's over'tlio telephone. Usnently hnhad occasion to : callrup a friend in..Seattle on a matter of personal iinportaw".. ■When the trailacontiiientr\l connection liad been made the man in Seattle shoiitfj through the ''phone I— ■ ' "Who is talking?" '"''his is' Tom ■Smith," answPTed the Cnnctrcssniiin , at tlie cap'-W end of the wire. '■''.-.■ \ .■,'•' ''Nn, it is "it Tom Smith," snapped the mpn in Seattle. "Y°s, it is To«i Rmitl). I fell ynu," Hip lwllowcd. "Why (In wit dP."lit it-?" . "Why, Tom RmUh stutters." "Cnnfmiirl it." yelled Hie Conarfssman, "do vou think T «ra going- to stutter nt a.dollar a word?"
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 9
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113COSTLY TELEPHONING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 9
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