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Show RIGHT ONCE.IN TEN ATTEMPTS. Bad Speller Did Get It Correctly, Though He Wabbled Badly. Some bad spellers hit on a phonetic version of a difficult word and stick to it; others are of the wabbly kind. One of these latter is an Inspector for a fire insurance agency. He was ordered or-dered to visit a certain premises daily and report the amount of Inflammable material' stored there. In his firBt list he mentioned a cert-aln number of gallons of "kereosine." . "Funny that he always gets these words wrong," said a man in the office. of-fice. "You'd think that he'd get them right once in a while under the law of chances' . . "Oh, he does hit the nail on the head sometimes," declared another man. Thereupon a bet of cigars was made that In his next ten reports the inspector would not spell "kerosene" correctly. Thls unique spelling bee, in which there was only one . contestent, and he unconscious of the match, aroused keen dally Interest. Here is his exact list: "Karoseno, Coresene, Caresean (three times), Careosenn. Kerosene, Careasean,, Kareasean and Kearie-sene." Kearie-sene." Thus on the seenth shot he hit the bullseye and the bet was won by the man who didn't believe that the devil was as black as he was painted. V |