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No," said Jimmy. "I am going to get a regular he-job."
The other smiled. "If an increase in salary," he suggested, "would influence you, I
had intended to tell you that I would take care of you beginning next week. I
thought of making it fifteen dollars," and with that unanswerable argument for
Jimmy's continued service the buyer sat back and folded his hands.
"Nothing stirring," said Jimmy. "I wouldn't sell another sock if you paid me ten
thousand dollars a year. I am through."
"Oh, very well," said the buyer aggrievedly, "but if you leave me this way you will
be unable to refer to the house."
But nothing, not even a team of oxen, could have held Jimmy in that section
another minute, and so he got his pay and left with nothing more in view than a
slow death by starvation.
"There," exclaimed Elizabeth Compton, as she sank back on the cushions of her
car.
"There what?" asked Harriet.
"I have placed him."
"Whom?"
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