The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-07
Steam Job Printing
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You did NOT refer to your employeri

you did not refer to your employer,
and speak of him as that fellow,
hope"
Mr. Billings. whenever he took cold
was bit deaf, and the raw wind which
had been blowing the past twcnty-four
hours had given a chill and seemed 70
have also blown some cotton wool into
his ears. and he did not distinctly catch
his clerks remark.
..You were the last person in my
mind, Mr.. Billings, and what did say.
or rather intended to say, just bit into
it. as somebody advised me; but put
my teeth in the wrong place and took
piece out of my tongue.
The employer could appreciate a
Joke. and he laughed with his clerk.
..That isn't a bad idea, to bite your
words off sometimes and not say them
Do YOU make that = practicep"
..Well, have tried to do it A friend
advised me-
'Humphf'
THAT was MIR. Billings only answer.
Two days later, when the clerks 10
Johnny's department all felt that their
employer was behind each one OF them.
inspecting their acts, word came TO
Johnny that Mr.. Billings was actually
In his counting-room and would Ike 70
see him.
"Mep"
YES, yes" replied the messenger.
..He said Earle"
Johnny stepped down into the coun-
ting-room. a4 -,
IBID you wish to see me, Mr.. Bill
ingsp
Eyes, did. There is department
in the store where the pay Is better
than in yours and where the young
man filling It must know how to bite
off his words. He must keep cool and
good tempered. The fact Is. I want
such clerks all over the store but par
ticularly in the place | mention.
Where is itp"
lit is near me, in my counting
room. | am apt to bite the wrop1
way. and want somebody who wdn'e
bite back. can give you good pay
and help you TO something still bettcr
by and by. may be"
indeed
This time, Johnny did not have any
words to bite of even II he wished n
He could only say: "Why-y-y!"
There" said his employer, laugh
ing, II guess you have begun already
and bitten off what you had to say.
Well, it is all right We will consider
1t bargain.
Johnny was leaving the counting
room. when. Mr.. Billings said; II like
} to have my wife see the clerks keep
} nearest me, and won't you call round
a. my houseP We should be happy to
see you"
OF course, Johnny went
} Mrs. Billings, let me introduce ia
J you my clerk, Master John Earle.
The lady and the clerk looked at one
) another, and the fair face Of the lady
| seemed to be only mirror in which he
saw Uncle Soomon's barn. the dusty
rafters overhead and the big hay-mows.
These NAV seem to be strange things to
D be discovered in lady's face, but
, johnny saw them, and he heard mu-
t steal voice saying: Bite it off, Johnny,
bite ii of.
? Why said she, with music in her
!, laugh, 1--WE have met before.
y Yes he replied, Tin Uncle Solo
: mons barn, and you gave me some
n good advice about-well, not saying
: everything that came into ones
mind -"
"She wasn't the one that told you Il
o bite of some wordsp" asked Billings. II
amazement
1.-The same person.
d ..Indeed, Well. might have guessed
that. | have been wanting to fird
g clerk like her. The very same person
a | might have guessed It. Stupid!"-
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