Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1914 — That Printer Again! [ARTICLE]

That Printer Again!

The advertisement had puzzled the applicants, but the rector was stilA more puzzled when some fifty or more ladies ranged themselves alongside his house at the appointed hour. “I can keep a set of books,” replied the first applicant, “but I haven’t a bass voice." . .[ The rector seemed still more puzzled. t “Indeed,” went on the fair one, "I don’t think you’ll get a lady clerk with a bass voice.” A light seemed to dawn on the rector, and he took a paper off the side table and looked for his advertisement. This was how 4t ran: “Lady clerk wanted, with good bass voice.” “The insertion of a *d* has caused all this trouble,” he said with a smile, as he dismissed the fifty anxious applicants. “I wanted a lay clerk.”