office; four dollars a week."

"'Taint enough money. Got anything else?"

"Here's a place in a grocery store--six dollars a week."

"What time d'ye have to get to work in the morning?"

"Seven o'clock."

"Got anything else?"

"Here's something--errand boy--six a week, mornings at eight."

"Saturday afternoons off?"

"Nothing is said about it."

"W-ell-l, maybe I'll drop around and look at it."

American independence!

An Italian boy came in, looking for work. He was told of the printing
office job.

"All right. I'll take it."

For what it is worth, it may be set down that a large proportion of the
boy applicants carefully scrutinize the dollar sign when they talk
wages. Moreover, they are not unacquainted with that phrase concocted by