Ten Words for Twenty-Five Cents (1911)

Bixby, a traveling salesman, is out on the road when he receives a telegram from his wife, stating that she is dying. The information is both startling and puzzling, inasmuch as when he had left home a few days before his wife had appeared in the best of health. Bixby makes a dash for home and after encountering all sorts of obstacles to his progress arrives at his domicile, his attire a wreck. Furthermore, he finds his wife just as hale and hearty as when he had left her, with not the least appearance of any mortal ailment. The accident is explained when Mrs. Bixby tells him that the original telegram had read: "My dear Frank. Come home at once. I am dying to see you." The telegraph operator, with the wisdom of Solomon, had cut off the last three words in order to get the message into the ten word limit.

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