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"I've got to get at it some other way," said Jimmy, "but you bet your life I'm going
to get at it. It looks to me as though there's something funny about that pay-roll."
On his way out he stopped at Everett's cage. "What was the amount of the check
for the pay-roll for this week, Everett?" he asked.
"A little over ninety-six hundred dollars."
"Thanks," said Jimmy, and returned to the shops to continue his study of his
men, and as he studied them he asked many questions, made many notes in his
little note-book, and always there were two questions that were the same: "What
is your name? What wages do you get?"
"I guess," said Jimmy, "that in a short time I will know as much about the payroll
as the assistant general manager."
Nor was it the pay-roll only that claimed Jimmy's attention. He found that several
handlings of materials could be eliminated by the adoption of simple changes,
and that a rearrangement of some of the machines removed the necessity for long
hauls from one part of the shop to another. After an evening with the little volume
he had purchased for twenty-five cents in the second-hand bookshop he ordered
changes that enabled him to cut five men from the pay-roll and at the same time
do the work more expeditiously and efficiently.
"Little book," he said one evening, "I take my hat off to you. You are the best two-
bits' worth I ever purchased."
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