"Number, please?"
"Beach 7660, please."
"Beach sevain sickss sickss oooooo?"
"Right."
"Burr's?"
"Burr's."
"Hello, would you please see if a photograph left by a Mr. -- just before the Summer holidays, has been repaired yet?"
"What was the name please?"
"-----"
"-----?"
"No; -----"
"OH; -----"
"NO! It starts with--as in -----; the rest is right."
"Oh; -----"
"RIGHT."
"Just a minute please."
"Did you get a repair slip when you left the machine?"
"No. The clerk was out of them and wrote the thing down on a plain piece of paper."
"Just a second, pease."
. . . . . .
"What kind of a machine was it, do you remember?"
"Let's see. Well, it was one of those medium-sized ones with the top: the kind you can set on a table I guess, too, they cost about fifty dollars when I got it about eleven years ago."
"Wait a moment, please."
. . . . . .
"Can you give me just a few more details please: you see it's rather hard to locate on account of there being no regular repair slip."
"Hmmmm. Well. Oh sure; it's exactly like the one here in the room."
GENTLE THUD AS RECEIVER AT OTHER END IS REPLACED ON THE HOOK.
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