The Joke That Brought Success

They thought to play a joke upon the fair typewriter maid And ohanged the letters all abcrat upon the little keys. The A was pasted on where erst the K had been displayod, And they sadly juurbled up tho F's, the B's and C's and D!s. But sin; calmly went to thuraping, all unconscious of the triek. Tlie roaultwas not just what tliey'd led each other to expect, For, when they gathered round her, as sho gave the final click, It was found she'd writ a story in the choicest dialect.