Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — HE MEANT BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

HE MEANT BUSINESS.

On<’ l.i'i’i Vlg-nrouß Hint Succphh ii) Way of Koouriiiu a Job. Tiie nii-r Inuit hail arriso I at bin ofi'c ‘ ns early an 7 o’clock, ay« the Dot i :■ reo Tr< BH, and tie- minutes after ho ffot. ii wu to his desk a foxy-looklng, bright-.ueod boy camo in. 'The merchant was reading, and tho boy, with bi' lint of)', Htood thoio <-:<|ioi!liint ! y, but ua ing nothing. At the end of two miii'.itjs ho coughed slightly and -poke. “Excuse me, Sir," he said, “but I’m in n hurry.” The merchant ’ibifkiid up. “Wlyit do you want.''' he askod. “1 v.uul a job if you've got ono for me.” "i h, yon do?” snorto I the merchant. “We i, what uro you in snob u hurry U10.1t.” “. v<> got to be; that's why." wan tho sharp response. “I loft h hool yesterday ov<mi,.g to go io work, ami i can t ii oi dto bo wasting time. Hy .uiiint ;o anything for mo, ay ;o, uni I’ll kip, Tin) only place w.,ore 11 un st p lo.ig i;-i in tho place where they pay ma !or it. ' The merchiitit looked nt the < 1 ok. , "\7'icu < r’.i yonc. mo?" he asked ' don t have to eune,’ replied tho '■e .t r, m here how, u;.d id b. n nt work bci'oro tills if you hut :i : . o. ” :i.’.''an hour inter he wa at It, and .c it!; ’' vto have u job us long as 1.0 it. "

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