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A PROOF-READER.Wfiaf OrlMM Yliti^ Wanli, mUcWbai it Cxpelt;‘U to lt;*et.? r; f a 3 ^ d % aAB jt lt;‘ - \\ 1* ' f j• In the advertising columns of the ;Times, Sunday, appeared the following ' want: tASm/.! - f*AVAXTfefc—Ah intcitigynt, well e«hi«5Htefl, industrious proof-reader, either married or single. Must be thoroughly temperate. A good position for a number-one man. Address 1 ! wrap.. Times office* 3?? ;m q . *; d S.?bOj$ow, innocent as that unostentatious card appears, it was productive of more trouble than anything that has appeared in the city press lor many a day. There were no less than seven hundred and t fourteen letters received up to Sunday iiurlifc. and on Monday the number was so great that thev could not be counted up to the time of goiug to press. Samples of the lot are as fbllowsl ‘ ' '* ;1 . lt;r Mr. Comp: 1 am a proof-reader of somej experience, though my mother was a dutch-i$en. I am well educated in the United States, so hope you will find me all right. lama! widowers - * . . (O** iEAh fhn: t speak Oermarti French, English, Portuguese?* and Spanish. Have been a civil engineer) doctor and lawyer of considerable repute; also an editor and politician. As a proof-reader I know I Would be a success, although t confess I tiev^r tried Hijfu j“ Honored Sir : Will you give me a sling atyour proofs for a day or sot If I don’t make it lively for the boys down stairs, and red hot, for the boys Up, count me out. t am a Sanscrit)Chinook and Kanaka proof-reader * * „• : “ lam) Hu J •*: J. C.*jf#“ Dear Sir i am a pore Widower with foursmall children to ’sport likewise one eye which the other was lost in Hinallpox some time ago, i feel as thou i could give satisfaction if i tried and anvthing'to help along in these times, i haven’t drunk a drop for fivo month haring had no money.** Ana so ell. * di .Ij *i 4Now, not one person out of ten thousand has any idea what a proof-reader is ought to be. So, for the benefit of those who haven’t as yet put in theif application, we will give the standard qualifications requimft:,;, * .n*1. A competent proof-reader should; be wall-eyed, to enable him to understand at first glance a sentence so mixed up by the I. 0.—intelligent compositor—that 1 no one else in the wide world, not even j its author, wQuJd be able to understand or recognize it. , ’ . / ./ * .2. lie must be so unfamiliar with] Bhnkspeare, French, Latin, and common proverbs as to be able, conscientiously, I to change and ruin any quotation which may be made by the ignorant but well meaning gentlemen who run the editorial .ropxqs. ^ ■ i. • r j3. Ite must be quick at punctuation, j and able instantly to detect the exact , place whore a comma may bo inserted so ■ as to completely alter the sense of asentence, and make the author. flt;/am at f the mouth and tear liis hair the next1day. * t L- V V4. He must be possessed of Calmness, | coolness and precision, so that* he may j , gently, but firmlymeet the excited ex-, ! postulations of the city, telgraph and; managing editors with that steadfast I giare which alone can render them !speechless and idiotic. 15. Tie must have grammar and the dictionary at his fingers’ ends, that when 11 he comes to a particularly choice sentence ; * he may be able either to make it un-!1 grammatical at a stroke, or so change a i * word as to completely ruin the sense. j I
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Morristown Gazette
Morristown, Tennessee, US
Wed, May 26, 1880
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