A HUSTLING FOREMAN.^ The new foreman was a hustler. Nothing escaped his eagle eye, and whenever he saw a workman suffering from a tired ieeling he quickly woke him up. So when ho discovered a bricklayer snatching a quiet pipe behind a wheelbarrow his wrath arose mightily. “What do you think you’re paid fori Get on with your job, if you don’t want to get fired pretty sharp.” “ All right, boss,” rejoined the workman. “ Keep you 'air on. Rome wasn’t built in a day, you know.” “Thai may be,” rejoined the hustler, “but I wasn’t foreman of ttjat job.”— ‘Pearson’s Weekly,’ “ K -C .
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Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 5
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103Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 5
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