The Archive · 1941

IN PARENTHESIS

Not the Zeros

ANTE: "How are you getting along wi your arithmetic?"

Audrey: "Well I'e learned to add up the zer but the figures still bother me."

So It Seems Visitor: - "Sa, some of these taxicab drivers are good. Why, dime."

Native: "Yes, but they charge 50 cents for doing it.

Nothing New "In New York," he said, "they have a com-pay that does nothing but answer phone calls for other people."

"Tve been doing that for years myself," said the man with three pretty daughters.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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