"I learned," she replied, "that spelling is essential to a stenographer."
The boss chuckled,
"Good. Now let me hear you spell 'essential.'"
The fair girl hesitated for the fraction of a second.
"There are three ways," she replied. "Which do you prefer?"
And she got the job.
JONES—"'Ow is your 'ealth today, Mr. 'Arrison?"
HARRISON—"My name is not 'Arrison."
JONES—"Well, if a haitch, a hay, two hars, a hi, a hes, a ho and a hen don't spell 'Arrison, then what does it spell?"