Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1910 — Putting In the Time. [ARTICLE]

Putting In the Time.

A gentleman was engaging a general man and telling him what he wanted him to do. “You will have to clean the windows and the boots and the knives and go messages, chop wood, cut short grass, mind the horse and pony, look after the garden and keep the house supplied with vegetables and do any odd Job that is required and if suitable you will get ten shillings a week.” "Ib there any clay in the garden?” asked the man. “What makes you ask that?” asked the gentleman. “I was thinking I could make bricks in my spare time,” qpid the man.