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to that I learnt more about your father and
his business than I should have done if I
had been with him all day long. Well,
your father's clerk made himself very com
fortable in your father’s chair, and read the
newspapers, and sang1 scraps of songs, and
did his best to amuse himself until he was
interrupted by the appearance of another
smart young clerk with a letter for your
father. The two, w h o seemed to be on very
friendly terms with each other, decided that,
as they had so happily met, they must
go and have ** an eleven o’clock,” as they
called it, together, and I felt certain that I
should be left alone, when your father’s
clerk, catching sight of me, said, “ Hullo 1
I'll give the girls a treat, I'll hide
myself behind the governor’s bush j ” and
with these words he put me in his button
hole, and we all three went out together.
In a few moments wc were in a bright
room, where, in front of a long counter,
quite a number of smart young clerks sat on
high stools, talking merrily, but not very