(At around 3 mins) The camera is on the notepad and the pencil that Laurel is holding breaks. We can see that Laurel only squiggled on the notepad rather than writing the words Hardy had told him to write.
Those "squiggles" are in fact Shorthand, an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to a more common method of writing a language. Shorthand was used more widely in the past, before the invention of recording and dictation machines.
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