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Show JOHN WAS MIXED UP. i i With. Him the Typewriter and the Girl AVer One and the Same. John was an office boy, but was big-enough big-enough to appreciate the good-looking girl when he saw one. lie was a nice dresser, and withal quite a fine appearing ap-pearing boy. IIo was not well satisfied satis-fied with his position, but his ambition was such that he hoped one day to be a stenographer and master of a typewriter. type-writer. Keeping this iu view, he had always al-ways practiced on a machine in the office. Indeed, all his spare time was put in that way, says the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. . One day his employer passed through the office, and noting John at work, as he had noted him 100 times before, he said: "John, you're always trying to work that typewriter. What do expect ex-pect to do in the future?" John got red in the face, and he wondered won-dered who had been giving him away in that fashion. "Who told you so? he stammered out. "Oh," said the man, "one of the boys told me about it." "I know who did that," said John. "It was Charley. He tried to work that typewriter girl over there in the pink waist, and just because I beat his time he had to give the snap away to you, sir, I'll get even with him." - And even to this day they guy John as to how he gave himself awayund mixed the girl and the machine. |