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this job cinched for three % days. S TSs Boz
II seemed, had some kind Of IN averaging
system whereby be reckoned up tho receipts
OF the day. and the coin that he found In
the I'll during my three days, incumbency
Scheme % AVs SnyhoW sa Wssn 9S~ he % returned up
town at the close Of my third day. he gave
mo 9i.2S and the quick chase. remArking
that all I needed In my business was O
bunch Of skeleton keys and an assortment
Of chilled chisels to give Jimmy Hope.
who va. then he os doing some Ao tai brFFnE
swung this boss for an occasional smoke
or 20 out Of the case. and felt 30 sore over
his cracks that meditated heaving cou-
pie Of bricks through his window when I
got outside; but l overcsme the tempta-
KEN aEs sns s ne
Il connected this time In . doctors
ONCE. Compensation, %. the seven days,
for he told me that Id have TO be around
on Sundays az well a. on weekdays. The
first Job this doctor man gave me TO do
was to tShs the tS leg up on ms SSIsSy hS,:s
shop q few blocks away to be ahod. ! con-
cludsd 40 soon a. / mounted the horve
that what he chiefly needed In hh business
so i steered him for Central Park. and
when / got there ! proceeded TO give an
hero Of the youth Of the land-in the act
Of riding away from a looted bank.
think must have ridden that doctors horse
for about FIVE hours before taking. him
to the blacksmith's shop, and the horse
was In alather when got him TO the shop;
about ten minutes later while waiting
for the blacksmith TO get around the horse
gave me q long. lingering. reproachful
look and laid down.
7 felt that the horse was going to die
snd ! eiided right away from there;
never learned whether the horse passed
II up or not. The doctor didn't know where
lived. but was In fear Of my life for
months afterward that he'd be around to
present bill to my dad for one dead buggy
horse. and never walked within mile Of
place where his ofYice was to the present
day, In fact, that don't look for him to
| Jump out and nab me and accuse me OF
laundering his horse.
well. murder viii out, and got to be
good deal Of Joke at home on account Of
doing In the .job-losing line. My older
| brothers guyed me to a state Of frenzy
about 1t. and 1t got so that my father In
| qured, with a grim smile every evening
when l turned up. 'Firedr
This caused me at that time to look
upon my father-bless his kindly. level
headed memory-as a low. common. un-
| sympathetic person.
THE next job l got was that Of errand
| boy and roustabout In haberdashery
store on lower Broadway. Honorarium.
ss a week. was making all kinds Of a
hit with myself at this Job when. while
sprinkling the store at the wind-up OF the
| fourth day, | accidentally knocked from
the shelf q fine box OF choice white silk
neckwear. The neckwear spraddled all
over the dusty half-sprinkled floor The
boss told me that he couldn't use elephants
| in his line Of business. passed me a suffi-
cient number Of shin plasters to aggregate
81 and told me that there were plenty OF
boiler factories around New York that
needed my services
Then got a job on the delivery wagon
OF a fourteenth street dry goods plant
| job suited me first rate. All had to do
was to chin with the driver OF the wagon
and hold the horse while he was arguing
with women on the front steps OF houses
about goods he was delivering c. O d. .
| "On the fifth day Of my incumbency
decided. during the absence OF the driver
! at the basement door Of a house al (which
| he was delivering bundle, to emulate
| some stunts Of a circus chartoteer whose
| performance had inspired me with great
admiration the year before; When q cop
| caught the horse over 'onlEleventk avenue
| the wagon only had three wheels, and /
| concluded that, all in all. there was no
real occasion for me TO return to the Four
| teenth street dry goods store TO get my
| five days pay.
Next captured work as messenger boy
| for lawyer who had an ONCE on Warren
street When got this jobs week-1
| told my father with a heap OF grandilo-
| quence that | hadsdecided 10 go In for the
| study OF law Consequently, when. upon
my return home on the very first day, he
hurled that insulting question. 'Firedy
at me, II was all the more annoying In that
it was true had been fred
You see. Id been kept pretty busy all
| day taking down and dusting and rear
ranging the lawyers books and in the after
noon l sneaked down to the basement to
cop out quiet smoke. The butt that |
| threw away somehow or another got mixed
up with lot OF waste paper. The lawyer
! looked like Nubian when he got through
| putting out the fire. He told me that II
at any future time he felt any pressing
need for a pyromaniac in the conduct OF
| his business he'd send me a postal card.
| Thus / was left In the air once more.
"0n the very next day piped OF Boy
Wanted sign in the Chambers street Office
OF another patent lawyer. and he took me
on at $3.50, which sounded pretty huge to
me. The work was so easy that | felt 1t
| WOulu DE u rIldIIlt 1Of W ilipi'f
when Saturday came around-but | WASH
there on Saturday. | lasted all OF two days
with this patent lawyer Then. during
his momentary absence. essayod 10 teach
the office cat how to jump through my
hooped arms.
"rfhe cat declined to see H. but got into
panic, and knocked down fragile wooden
model OF patent churning machine that
was on the lawyers desk. In chasing tho
cat stepped on the model and converted
IL into matchwood. and when my boss got
back he tore his hair and chased me down
the hall. down the stairs, Into the street,
and two blocks on Broadway. The gang
on the street yelled stop thief! after me,
but / ran like kill devil, and saved myself
from being pinched.
Il didn't get my nerve back for q couple
OF days. but then picked up my heritage
OF woe once more and skated out 10 look
for the sign. Saw IL In the window OF a
| harness and trunk store on Eighth avenue
and got the 81. so per job hands down. Tho
boss spent the whole morning Of my first
day there teaching me how to. stencil
initials and names on the ends OF trunks
and the sides Of valises In the afternoon
he set me to work stcnCilling the initials OF
some hot sport on the side OF s2s Gladstone
bag l got hold OF a % in the place OF
an 90. and then | tried to wipe out the
90 with a pint or so Of benzine When
got through that s2s Gladstone bag was n
hash, and the boss all but passed me the
boots ! could only look gloomy when !
,,ot tLo 'Eired9' o,iary from my did that