WHY PINGS RESIGNED.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 51, 19 May 1910, Page 3

WHY PINGS RESIGNED.

things the book-keeper was in love

In fact, the new stenographer had him so dazzled that he was getting seven shaves a week, waxing the ends of bis moustache, and memorising whole pages of love sonnets. Oim day his hair fairly, curled with pleasure as she handed him her penknife to sharpen, and when he refer nerl it lie beamed upon ber and said

'Miss Peacbly. if there is one thing 1 can do well, it is to sharpen a knife, and whenever you have any of this work to be done, please let me attend to it for you. Really, I will it a favor." The next morning she brought down to the office a couple of penknives for him to try his skill on, and two days later three pairs of shears, and, after those had been attended to, she handed him a package and said :

"Here are some razors, Mr. Pings. Father and the boys have such a time to keep them sharp, and I know that you love to do the work. I’ll bring them to you every mouth." Pings’s jaw dropped when he opened the package and found twelve dull razors, and when he crawled into bed at midnight, after working on the blades all evening, he vowed it would be the last jab of the kind he would ever do. But it wasn't.

The next day the handsome stenographer handed him another parcel, and this time it was several carvingkniveß that needed attention, and it took just one smile to make him forget his vow. This might have ended the matter for a time had not the office force caught on to what the book-keeper was doing, and then the boys decided to have some fjia at his expense Pings came down to the office one morning to find on his desk a boe, an axe, a shovel, several ancient swords, and a pickaxe. and pinned to the latter was a piece of paper, on which was written :

"Please sharpen these at once, Mr. Pings. Will bring down the lawnmower to-morrow.”

But Pings had had enough. When he recovered from his astonishment he wasn’t three minutes in looking for another book-keeper’s job.