WANTED-" A NICE JOB."
With a cheap pauama crushed down upon his bruw, ho sal in a lvgistiy oilire this morning, nnd Minted amiably at the lady in chaigp. ■'(.Jot anything (or me?" he asked, in , liretl tones. Jhs could not plough, he could not cook, he could nnt milk, he could nnt. do anything that lequiird any large amount ol .skill. The woman road out ajiplu.itioith for a man "willing Id work" in tho country, -but he shook his head; he wanted a '"nico joir-lVneing would do. 'Ilifi'o was iinthiiig purely in tlio IVii'-liij! liiii 1 , though tlu'W- were billets in vvhu'li a knowlcclgi; of (hat work vns retjniretl. ''Iho man, n brawny person, was "hard up," but ho wmilll not do kitthcii work in 11 hotel. "I'll call ;ig<iiii," lie niiiritiinvd, and took hit, punatua, into the sired onco 11101 c. "N'ini-lonlh'i <if (hem vit > |j|<p. thai," commented thn I'e^i.iliy l.idy. "They want iiic-p, I'nsy, lu/.y yil>:' Midi »t, fencing «lftnt\ at ii pliuv wliorii (he materials are brought lo Ihein find Ux\y take their own lime at putting thvm up. Advertiso for « nnoi f'tr rabbit poihoning, anil you got lunulioilft uf u|>pli<-al,ioii». That is a .soft job; n mitn <au out in (ha moming, •lu/,yii)K nbnul, nnd neod not oven but hoi' nlioul lnvin/; (he poison. !!«• win merely «uiy Im did il. Hut you scare 'em nw:iy wiicti you usU for rnol good farm hnndjt . II is nlntuNl. iinprtr,sib!t> (o get men willing lo lull ji'«:n>:iably bam."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 8
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250WANTED-" A NICE JOB." Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 8
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