Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — Unconscious Punning. [ARTICLE]

Unconscious Punning.

Like most authors dependent on their, pen for a livelihood, George Augustus Sala turned out a vast amount of ephemeral work in the early days of his journalistic career. There are people now who can call to mind his transactions with publishers of no great eminence. One of these publishers rejoiced in the name of Totter. The times Mr. Sala danced attendance on his middleman in order to bring a certain business matter to a head would have tried the patience of Job. “I can’t go into it now; i’m busy to-day; you must look in another time,” said Mr. Potter to him on one inauspicious occasion. Mr. Sala felt annoyed. “But don’t you think,” he returned, quite unconsciously—“don’t you think I get tired of pottering about like this?”