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Show H REFLEX. B "Is this number three-naught-one?" queried ' someone on the other end of the line in a sibilant M Northumberland accent. ji M It H "Is it the office of Mr. Peacock & Pindar?" I H We hoped not. n H "I'm quite sure that's the number they, gave H me." M Could wo help it? WM In a few minutes there was another jingle and H the deep Northumberland cadence was again H wafted over the heated wires. H Yes, it was three naught one. j ! H "Well, there must have been some beastly mis- ! H take. I have since learned that my friends are at ' J tH three-naught-one McCornick building. Presuming, H of course, that the number of an office corre- ' H sponded " H But an adult guffaw from tho office humorist blotted out the remainder of tho Britisher's ex- planation. H |