that night's mail and your employer will probably look for another stenographer who is competent to take his dictation. And would he not be justified in discharging you? Inability to transcribe their notes is the great failing of the majority of stenographers. Don't be one of that class. Transcribe every line of shorthand you write during your study of shorthand, and you will not go through such an experience as that outlined above.
IMPORTANCE OF READING SHORTHAND.
The reading of shorthand should not be confined wholly to one's own notes. It is well to read nicely engraved or printed shorthand notes. For this purpose the "Gregg Writer" and other shorthand publications and books are invaluable and should be used wherever possible. The more reading of shorthand the pupil gets, the more familiar the characters become, the more readily also they are recalled and when again heard, the more rapidly they are written. For years the author of Gregg Shorthand and the writer of these lines have corresponded in shorthand, written on unruled paper, and every word has been as plain and legible as print. Evidence taken in court, and at hearings has been transcribed readily by both.
Gregg Shorthand by its invariability of outline, by its one way of writing each word in the English language, is especially adapted for interchange in
