AN OFFICE ARTIFICE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3359, 11 December 1919, Page 3

AN OFFICE ARTIFICE

A contain city man used to fell :1 stovy against himself. “I went one day,” he said, “to see 3. busy man in the city. and being very interested in my business I am :It'i-aid I talked I"athel' at I(?]};_fHl, :'l;d peimaps consumed a good deal of hi‘; time. P.v:esently the telephone» on his desk :-ung, and he picked up the I'e3ei'.”-3?‘ ‘A! right, in a nlinllte,3_ he ’§Ji(i; “ xvii! "-0 with you almost illlnl-?di:l‘('].;'.. I am btisy with 3. gentleman 11-.)'..\'_ h 1.: we are about Hlrougll.”’ “I silzll"r.ed I'o hurry my final re.ni'zLl'kjs, but I became so iim-res'.Lci .zl.p,':iiil that I ’ra,]ked ‘.oxic;3m' ihe.i~i.l 113tenfied. Again the telepli<-mp, 1,011 r«.mg_

and he picked up ;the receiver. ‘Ycs, I’m coming,’ he said, and tLu':lin,;‘ to me he continued, ‘I have .111 app.)intment on the floor above, so I m'~ls‘t z‘.=:l{ me to excuse me for a few ;ninut')s.’ “He then went out of the room. As I was anxious to say it few more words I waited. Several times I thought I hem-d someone approach the door through ivhieh he had gone. I paced up and down the floor, and in my journeyingg I suddenly noticed a button at the end of his desk where his hand 11-ad rested, and out of curiosity I touched it. To my surprise the telepllone bell rang. I made an examination and di.scovel'ed that the telephone was connected with 11oit.hing' but that button,_and realised thalt he had rung it to get rid of me. Needless to say I_slleeked out as’ quickly as ‘possible.