The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-08-16
SMITHS NEW. CLERK.


" How's business 2" inquired the
latter.
"All right got new clerk"
" Got new clerk, eh! Where
is Jones!'
Discharged him. An idle,
extravagant, imprudent young
dog I"
"Trnc enough, and the new one
won't be any better. Drinking,
gambling, late houra, and fast
horses that's the way with 'em
ALL"
And Smith groaned.,
Jenkins eye twinkled. He
we'll knew the peculiarities of his
good hearted but eccentric bache-
lor partner.
swell, the new clerk don't
drink nor gamble. Pm certain of
that, and has thus far been very
industrious and attentive"
"Thus far o, yes. Wait a
month. New brooms sweep
clean"
ooh, well, if the new clerk
don't suit you, you can send the
new clerk adrift, that's all. / on.
ly took her-ah'in ! the new clerk
on trial"
Mr.. Smith stared at bis partner.
" | suppose the new clerk has q
names" he remarked, dryly.
"Oh, yes. Her, that is to say,
the new clerks name is Gardner.
But here we are"
AS was his usual custom. Mr..
Smith went through the store,
passing the array of clerks on eth.
er side of the counter, without
glancing to the right or left. Bnt
when he reached his private office.
at the further end, he looked
through the glass door, which was
80 situated that he could see all that
was going on in the store.
His eye fell on the occupant of
a desk near the door, he started (:
What's that ~ he said, turning
sharply upon his partner, who had
followed him.
jenkins gazed very composedly
npon the slender form, whose
graceful head was bent intently
over a ledger that lay open upon
the desk.
That! Why that's the new
clerk"
Smith rubbed his eyes and look
ed again.
"Why, it's a womani" he ex-
claimed, with an air of incredulity
and horror.
II should say 1t was" said Jen-
kins, coolly, "and confounded
pretty one at that"
Smith gave bis partner look of
virtuous Indignation.
s Mr.. jenkins, this is no place
for womai."
"Think not2 Now it strikes
me that she suits the place very
neatly"
The proper place for a woman
is in the sanctuary of home"
This was pet observation of
Mr.. Smiths which he hal read
somewhere, and which Inc consid-
cred as clincher in such all argu.
ment.
" But suppose she hasn't any g.
That was poser, and, in his ef-
forts to surmount it, Mr.. Smith
got excited.
Hasn't any! Why, sir, she
must--sho ought to have one."
" Very trne. in tact so conf
dent am / ON that point, that !
have some thoughts of Offering you
,inine-or, at least, to share it with
her"
"Mr. jenkins, this is not fit
subject for jest"
"It's serions matter, / know;
60, on the whole perhaps I'd bet
tor think it over awhile longer.-
Besides, there's no knowing if she
would accept my offer together
with the encumbrance tina. goes
with it."
Jenkins" returned Smith, Sc
verely, =" will you cease trif1ing ard
attend to the business in hand 2
This woman must CO."
." Very well you-told me you
wanted clerk that would be faith.
fnl and industrious that didn't
spend his salary, and all he could
steal, on fast horses and faster wo.
man and got you one. It's an
easy matter to- send her off,
"Of conrse il is," reioined
Smith, Frightening ut the sngges-
tion. just tell her she don't ex
actly suit, and that we shan't need
her after today"
|" Bot she does snit-me; and IL
you are not shited, all you've got
to do is to tell her So"
, @Yop hired her."