Bad Handwriting.
Horace Greeley's handwriting was so bad as to be practically illegible:— According to one legend, Greeley happened for a time to be J chairman of a local railway company, and he had occasion to send to a clerk in one of the offices a written notice of dismissal. Greeley wrote this brief document with bia own hand ; and it was duly delivered to the clerk, who used it for mon'n? after as a free pass along the line of railway He bad only to go to the Btation, present the document, mention it was a free pass from Mr Greeley, aod wait for its perusal. The official who saw it was able to make out the familiar signature, but could not hope to decipher the two or ihree lines of writing in the body of the document, and nat orally assumed that it must -be at} right, and allowed the bearer to paw along to his seat in the railway o»ri.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1899, Page 2
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163Bad Handwriting. Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1899, Page 2
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