WORTH HIS WAGES
The elderly woman was exceedingly rich but inclined to be mean. She wouldn't keep’• a cat, because its paws might wear nolee in the carpet. Unfortunately, she had to have servants, hut she compromised with her conscience by paying them as little as possible. One of her staff was .a miserable lad of fifteen, who answered the door, cleaned the knive6, waited at table, weeded the garden, washed the dog, and had the rest of tho day to himself. "Well, my boy,” asked a visitor one day, "what do you do here ?” "I do a butler and a gardener out of a job,” answered the boy sourly.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 8
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110WORTH HIS WAGES New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 8
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