The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 12 (March 1, 1940)
Spilling the Ink
Spilling the Ink.
A Glasgow merchant, famous in his way, came into his office one morning and found a young clerk writing a letter in rather a flourishing hand. “My man,” he observed, “dinna mak' the tails o' yer g's and y's sae long I want the ink tae last the quartpi? oot.”