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Jimmy pocketed his slip and walked from the office. "This town is slower than I
thought it was," he mused. "'I guess they do need some live wires here to manage
their business."
At noon he returned, only to be again disappointed, and then at two o'clock, and
when he came in at four the same clerk looked up wearily and shook his head.
"Nothing for you," he said. "I distributed all the stuff myself since you were in
last."
As Jimmy stood there almost dazed by surprise that during an entire day his ad
had appeared in Chicago's largest newspaper, and he had not received one reply,
a man approached the counter, passed a slip similar to Jimmy's to the clerk, and
received fully a hundred letters in return. Jimmy was positive now that
something was wrong.
"Are you sure," he asked the clerk, "that my replies haven't been sidetracked
somewhere? I have seen people taking letters away from here all day, and that
bird there just walked off with a fistful."
The clerk grinned. "What you advertising for?" he asked.
"A position," replied Jimmy.
"
That's the answer," explained the clerk. "That fellow there was advertising for
help."
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