Large and Small Bosses.
Chief Clerk (to head of the esbablishment) : " Good morning, Mr Largewealth." Head of the Establisment ; " Good morning, Mr Smith,"
Second Chief Clerk (to chief clerk) : " Goo morning, Mr Smith, pleasant morning." Chief Clerk : " Morning, Brown." Ordinary Clerk (to second clerk) : " Good morning, Mr Brown. Glad to see you looking so well this morning." Second Chief Clerk : " Yaa's. Hang up my coat, Jones." Olficc Boy (to ordinary clerk) : " Good morning, Mr Jones. Can Ido anything for you this morning, sirV Ordinary Clerk : '• Hustle round lively now, and get things in shape. You ain't worth the powder to blow you up." "Negro Porter (to office boy) : "Goodmawiihi', How in your health dis morning ?" Office Boy : " Come, you black nigger, got down and sweep out the basement or I'll report you." The negro porter then goes down and abuses the cat.— N. Y. Sun.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1756, 18 July 1885, Page 28
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145Large and Small Bosses. Otago Witness, Issue 1756, 18 July 1885, Page 28
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