• Author:
• Editor: B2331
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
• Page Number: 3
• Date: April 2 1913
• Tags:
• poem
• joke

OUR STENOGRAPHER

Mr. Flora, our stenographer---came to work today, And told us he had learned the Graham system. Two hundred words a minute seerned to him, he said like play And word for word at that---he’d never missed ’em! Mr. Kratz, gave some dictation---a letter to a man,

And this, as I recallit was how the letter ran :

“Dear Sir: I have your favor, and in reply would state

That I accept the offer in yours of recent date.

I wish to say, however, that under no con- dition

Can I afford to think of your free lance

: proposition.

I shall begin tomorrow to turn the matter out,

The copy will be ready by August 10th about.

Material of this nature should not be rushed unduly.

Thanking you for your favor, I am yours very truly.”

He took it down in shorthand with apparent ease and grace.

And didn’t hurry back, all in a flurry, ‘‘At last,”’ thought Mr. Kratz, ‘“Flora’s struck his natural gait;”’ Then said, “Now write it out---you needn’t hurry.”’ The Remington he tackled---now and then he struck a key,

And after thirty minutes, Mr. Kratz began to read:

“Dear Sir, I have the Fever, and in a Pile I Sit

And I except the Offer as you Have reasoned it,

I wish to see however That under any con- dition

| Can I for to Think of a free lunch preposi-

shun?

I shal be intomorrow To, turn the mother out,

The cap will be read and Will cost $10 about

Mateerul of this nation should not rust N.

y Dooley

Thinking you have the Feever I am yours very Truly.”