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"The old man isn't going to do anything for me, is he?" "How can you expect it so soon? He doesn't know you yet. How much do you think he pays the cash-boy that reads to him in the evening?" "I don't know." "Five dollars a week." "I wouldn't give up my evenings for that," he said. "It isn't so much the pay, Thomas, though that would be a help. He might take a fancy to you."
"I've been thinking, Frank," said Jasper, the next morning, "that you might get the position as a cash-boy." "What does a cash-boy do?" "In large retail establishments every salesman keeps a book in which his sales are entered. He does not himself make change, for it would not do to have so many having access to the money-drawer.
The money is carried to the cashier's desk by boys employed for the purpose, who return with the change." "Do you think I can get a situation as cash-boy?" "I will try at Gilbert & Mack's. I know one of the principal salesmen. If there is a vacancy he will get it for you to oblige me." They entered a large retail store on Broadway. It was broad and spacious.
"No goods; I want a place for this youngster. He's a friend of mine. I'll answer for his good character." "That will be satisfactory. But what sort of a place does he want?" "He is ready to begin as cash-boy." "Then we can oblige you, as one of our boys has fallen sick, and we have not supplied his place. I'll speak to Mr. Gilbert." He went up to Mr.
"What possessed him to take this cash-boy from the streets, invite him to dinner, and treat him as an honored guest, and finally to engage him as a reader? I never heard of anything so ridiculous! Is this little vagabond to take my place in the old man's good graces? I've been slaving and slaving for twenty years, and what have I got by it?
Yet he rather liked to hear these legends of the iron kings, that were told and retold on Sundays and holidays; these stories of palaces in Venice, yachts on the Mediterranean, and high play at Monte Carlo appealed to his fancy, and he was interested in the triumphs of cash boys who had become famous, though he had no mind for the cash-boy stage.
"I think it's twelve dollars," she replied thoughtfully. "And the other children?" "Martha and Veronica don't do anything yet. They're too young. My brother George works at Wilson's. He's a cash-boy. He gets three dollars and a half." "And how much do you make?" "I make four." He stopped, figuring up mentally just what they had to live on. "How much rent do you pay?" he continued.
He wrote a letter to Grace in the evening, announcing his success, and expressing the hope that he would soon be able to send for her. Four weeks passed. The duties of a cash-boy are simple enough, and Frank had no difficulty in discharging them satisfactorily.
He's a cash-boy at Gilbert & Mack's. Why, that's where you are," she added, with sudden recollection. "A cash-boy from my own place? What's his name?" "Fowler, I believe." "I know him he's lately come. How did he get in with the old man?" "Mr. Wharton fell in the street, and he happened to be near, and helped him home." "You'll have to manage it, aunt." "I'll see what I can do to-morrow.
Besides, when I found your uncle wanted a reader, I asked him to take my nephew, who is a salesman in the very same store where that boy is a cash-boy, but although I've been twenty years in this house I could not get him to grant the favor, which he granted to that boy, whom he never met till a few weeks ago." "Mrs. Bradley, I sympathize with you," said her companion.
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