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Show PENMAN'S V.'OtlDSrtFUI. FSAT. atutrallanClre I .on Jon 7rip?r TVflUr it Liou HprriL London Tclcsraph: Wrapper rrrltlns is, It would scorn, a popular way ot earning a livelihood with Iho Inmatoi I ot Rowton IIcu:c, a six-penny ho. el. Here Is an amuslni: itcry cf the perfection per-fection to wh.ch It may fca Iroucht by tract C2 a:.d a sliong w.ll. "Hiers Is a tradition lingering amonj tho elder bro:hrcn of the wiapper vrlt.ng profession pro-fession to the e.Tecl that onco upon a time, when tee work was better paid than cow, a younc men from Aus ra tla turned vp and ventured as a lat:. rc-ort Into tho'.r sphere of labor. He spent his a.l and found himscl stranded until funds tbould arrive from the antipodes. Co on tho bus-test. bus-test. on ot an oid acquaintance he applied ap-plied for n Job at the world-famed nrti of Schmidt Cl Co. On be ns duty In sta'lcd and supplied with 503 enve.opes nnd tome pajreo from a directory he locked around and naked for a pen. 'But you have one already said the young man In authority. 'I want two," answered the Austral art, and an in-teres'cd in-teres'cd and obllgiun fellow-s r.te tup plied tho need. Tho BC.no which thereupon there-upon entusd banes dc cMptlon. for the colonial, tepnratlng the pile of envel-ores envel-ores Into two equal lota, becan copy ing tho addresses by writ.ng slmul tancously with bo h hands. So rum the leccrd at least, and furthermore It Is averred that his rapidity was such as to put the 'alogsers' to shame. Fitly Fit-ly pens dropped from the nervelosi grasp of thoEo who but a minute be foro had Leon wr.tlng against timt and a3 If for dear life. A hundree eyes were fixed in astonishment on the unknown one Presently tho younj overseer who ruper'ntended the labors ot many old enou?h to be bis grandfather, grand-father, rose and tlm'dly said ho would eontu'.t the 'goverror.' The latter arrived, ar-rived, and Iho si uitton botng explained explain-ed the Auetralian was turned Into a loore tox all by hlmeelf and fid with another thoutaiid or so of envelopes At this rato ho earned enoujh in twe or three wcchb lo cnab'.o nlm to last out comfortably till his remittances arrived, ar-rived, then ho went homo and Schmidt's knew h'm no moro. We asked the old gentleman who told us this yarn to f.ll his pipe and have another an-other cup ot tea, tor wo thought ho deserved de-served bo'.h." |