FELT SAFE THEN.
i a conceited little, tradesman raised a loud commotion in a printing oftiee because one or two errors had crept into a handbill winch had been printed for him. i "I wrote, 'Come to my establishment for everything you need in the glass line.' and yon have made the idiotic mistake of printing { gafi' for 'glass/* he stormed. "And the worst of it is ( thousands of the handbills had been dis. ( tributed in the streets before I detected j the blunder." | Apologising profusely, tfte called in the young compositor who iiaJ set up the bill, and sternly asked him to explain the orror.
| "Well, sir, to .toll the truth." stain mered the youth, '"the gentleman's writ j in' was so bad T couldn't for the life o: mcniake out what article he was ndver tisin', so I asked the other fellers l\ t they knew anything about him. 'Why, . ses .they, 'you must mean Hint little ga* works in the next street,' and T felt sun | T should be safe in pnttin' 'gas' afiv
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 4
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177FELT SAFE THEN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 4
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