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Pitman sshorthand. I was surprised to find I remembered as much of it as I do, for I dropped it suddenly when A rdiie Merridew died, and Archie sclear, high-pitched voice was the last that ever dictated to me for speed, while I myself have not dictated since Archie took down his last message from my reading. That will be say a dozen years or more ago next A ugust. It may be a little more, or a little less. Nor, since I do not keep it as an anniversary, does the day of the month matter. Either in my rooms or his, we had a good deal of this sort of practise together about that time, young Archie and I treading aloud, taking down and transcribing. I am wrong in speaking of my rooms though; I had only one, a third-floor bedroom near the very noisiest comer of King sG
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