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Updated: May 27, 2025
Bring your brother with you." Business was touched to the quick. "I'm your man," he answered. "And with pleasure. But you must let me furnish the aperatif." "Just as you say, old man." Brusquely turning about, the future tradesman sought for his clerk who had disappeared. "Mimile," he shouted, "Mimile, I say, run and tell mamma to iron our shirts and put some polish on our shoes.
At first the dealers tried to have this commerce prohibited, but as the lads were scrupulously honest, and their percentage very modest, the Commandant not only tolerated, but protected them. Mimile was something of a Jonah, having twice been caught by bits of shrapnel, which necessitated his being cared for at the dressing station.
Oh, yes, and here's your writing paper." The child scribbled something in an old account book. "That makes fifty-three sous," he finally announced. Other soldiers now came up. The boys were soon surrounded by a group of eager gesticulating poilus. "Oh, shut up, can't you? How can a fellow think if you all scream at once? Here Mimile" and he turned to his aid. "Don't you give 'em a thing."
Then the tumult having subsided, he continued "Now then, your names, one at a time and don't muddle me when I'm trying to count!" Pistre quickly explained that this phenomenon was Popaul called "Business" and Mimile, his clerk, both sons of a poor widow who washed for the soldiers. In spite of his tender years "Business" had developed a tendency for finance that bespoke a true captain of industry.
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