Twain's Revenge
' I had run up to Glasgow on my way to the Highlands,' said Mark Twain, ' and s'teppcid into a telegraph and postal station to send a despatch to a frierid in Lo»ndon. I asiked several questions as to how long it woulkl tajve, when the message would be delivered, etc. The girl at the desk was inclined to be snobbish, and at the fourt/h qHie.sliun sflic cut "me dead. •' ' But I got even wittti her. I just sent my friend this message : " Arrived safely Girls (here ugly aoid had,-teinpered." And she had to send it, too ! '
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 25 August 1904, Page 15
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98Twain's Revenge New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 25 August 1904, Page 15
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