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At this reply our hero almost laughed, but was prevented from doing so by his host asking abruptly if he understood canoeing. "Well, yes. At least I can manage what in England is known as the Rob Roy canoe, having possessed one in my boyhood." "That will do," returned the hermit gravely. "Can you write shorthand?" "I can.
With so many men going, there would be empty places to fill.... That thought came, perhaps, as soon to Jane as to any one in the country. Her father's lady secretary went nursing, and Lord Pinkerton, well aware of his younger daughter's clearheaded competence, offered Jane the job, at a larger salary. 'Your shorthand would soon come back if you took it up, he told her.
Talmage became proficient in the use of it is evident from the fact that much of his journal was written in shorthand. "On the Sabbath Brother Collins and myself spend two hours in the forecastle instructing the sailors. Many of them seem perfectly willing, some of them anxious to receive instruction." "July 17. Saturday evening. It is a small island about ten miles square.
The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously.
Presently I saw him come hurrying in from the street, wiping his lips with a handkerchief. 'The letters, sir, I began. 'Ah! Got 'em done already? Right. Come into my room. I stood and watched him reading my effusions, at first with upward twitching brows, and then with smiling satisfaction. 'H'm! he said, as he gave them the firm's signature. 'It's a pretty good thing then, this shorthand.
Miss Gale seated herself, and automatically placed on her knee the shorthand writing-pad ready to take down his instructions. She looked up at him expectantly. Denham, in an embarrassed manner, ran his fingers through his hair. "I am thinking," he began, "of taking a partner. The business is very prosperous now. In fact, it has been so for some time." "Yes?" said Miss Gale interrogatively. "Yes.
Looking back upon it, I am rather pleased with myself for the stubborn persistence with which I slogged away at the shorthand; because it never once touched my interest. For me, it was a veritable treadmill. And, for that reason, I suppose, I was never really good at it. I have no doubt whatever that it had real value for me as a disciplinary exercise. And then my candle would gutter and expire.
For months I never looked beyond them, and never stopped short of copying out at least one column of them, and often more, especially in those misguided early days before I awoke to the stern necessity of reading over every written line of shorthand. I am afraid the leader-writers' eloquence and style real and ever-present features in this journal's pages were entirely wasted upon me.
My occupations were various: worked in printing offices, learned shorthand, became stenographer in a law office; was in newspaper work for twelve years; at thirty was auditor and treasurer of a coal-mining corporation in Colorado; after three years of business became a writer of books.
Then I took it more slowly. Again and again my forefinger traced the first of those four combinations. Martian writing is rather difficult to explain to an Earth man it is something of a cross between shorthand and picture-writing, and is an entirely different language from the spoken language of Mars. Upon Barsoom there is but a single oral language.
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