The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28

~ AL, let me whisper something to you: ' There Isn't anything that you can do
 that may not be of some use to you Get what meant You may have s lot 6f funny little tricks stowed sway up your sleeve that you think ain't good for anything but to aznuse the bunch when they happen to be coming too slow to suit your cultivated thirst. There's Crazy Dor gan; he can put his fingers in his ears and make you believe that a rooster's squawking and getting ready to fly down your collar There's skinny Lavin. Skfnny's best stunt is to take quarter, throw 1t at the ceiling, and pull $2 bill out of his neighbours pocket None of these things may look as if they were good for anything. but you never can tell. There's me, for instance and the only thing that I ever could do better than any. one of the bunch was to-But, any how. that's bow happened to get boost in salary.
 You know how fellows always get their boosts They stay down after the boss has gone home and straighten out the books. They get down early In the morning and have half . days work done before the big spoke shows up. They nevar ,drinks smete.. lch&sg. Sor swhArs they wnf& Ike they were III &zgs dox t tli3itk of ansth hing burt the ir- { xaxesfs of th8 fifln and th ats the way they Ee< their boosts-in the books ,s
 Yes. that, the way they all get their boosts. That's the way we all get up in the world, sin fhe, literature That's the way I got the raise I'm spieling about; yes I gdid--Iike ducks, was the original hardw orling and industrious slavewho had attracted the boss attention. that's what Ifwas-if don't care what say. I was the little Ambitious An drew who shone Ike a star in bunch of candles in the ofice. was. was a model, a beach, pessazxa, was I. and the boss noticed it, the way he always does, and I got my raise through that-not
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 How the Boost Came.
 Did really get rake7 Did I! Listeni I got boost that has got me wondering how such a talented young man as myself, not to say a genius, could have failed to connect with the big envelope until now. I was boosted until I'm half woozy figuring out how the boss overlooked such 6 sure thing bet so long. Yes. was. Now. listen.
 It came about this way: Hubby Larkins, who had charge of the checking down on the loading platform. got job in the cash ier's cage indoors. Hubby had held down the outdoor job on the platform so long that nobody ever looked for him to change. He'd been checking beef quarters and half hogs into ice cars so long that the platform wouldn't have looked natural without him. Hence-get that beautiful word-hence, when 1t came time to put somebody else on the job there wasn't anybody broken to fit the harness. +,,
 "who shaii we shoot down there?' says old Muggledorfer. the manager.
 Anybody who'll take the 1ob," says his assistance, Then they breeze around the of- hce and get bids on the job of checking on the loading platform Cool weather was coming on. It's fine down there near those Ice cars. with lot of greasy Hunkles around you, in cold weather. When the bids were all in old Muggledorfer discovers that there ain't anybody exactly insane to take over the job that Hubby quit, especially seeing as it don't mean any boost In salary, .,'