TELL US A STORY
To-day we print the first of our real life stories-some experiences by a school-teacher in Otago 30 years ago. You will notice that it is not the story of a whole life, or of a long stretch of one life, but of one quite brief period. Some of our readers have supposed that we are asking for autobiographies. This is a mistake. We are asking for experiences — one episode or a series of related episodes. It may have lasted a day or several days. But it may just as easily have been packed into half-an-hour, or less. Use a fictitious name if you don’t wish to reveal yourself. Conceal the place, and be as discreet as you like about the circumstances. But tell us the story and we shall pay you for it if we use it. Get it into a thousand words or less. Write or type on one side of the paper. Enclose a stamped and addressed envelope if you want us to return the MS. But don’t think that you are too ordinary to have a story, and too simple to tell it. The simple will collect most of our guineas. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 34
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198TELL US A STORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 34
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