A Chicago banker dictating a letter to his stenographer. "Tell Mr. Soandso," he ordered, "that I will meet him in Schenectady."
"How do you spell Schenectady?" asked the stenographer.
"S-c, S-c—er—er—er—- Tell him I'll meet him in Albany."
Stenographers can nod sometimes, even with the accuracy of the dictating machine. Recently a merchant dictating into one of these machines said:
"The gentleman in question has sold our products in Hayti for a period of over two years, and we have always found him satisfactory in every detail."
All came out all right in the transcription except one word, and that word was the change from Hayti to Hades! And the letter, being "dictated but not read," went!
"I seem to remember that girl. Who is she?"