WOULDN’T TAKE LONG.
"Tommy," said a busy man to his office boy, "just go into the next room and look up the word 'desiccate' in the dictionary for me." . Tommy went,, but he did not come back. His employer put aside that particular letter and wrote several others. But still Tommy was absent. Then, in a fury, the business man strode into the next room and found the office-boy perched on a chair, studying the dictionary intently. "What on earth are you doing, boy?" stormed the man, - "Please, I forgot the word," pleaded Tommy, "so I'm looking through the book for it."
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New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 46
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102WOULDN’T TAKE LONG. New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 46
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