Useful in the Business.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 87

Useful in the Business.

The reasons which lead men to choose a certain trade or profession are often, perhaps, no more sensible than the reason the boy in the following story gave for wanting a place in a bank. "I don't think I ever told yoii of our red-headed office boy. 'Brickbat,' *' remarked the bank president, after the rest bad each told a etorj

"Never did," was the answer. "Well,"' continued the speaker, "he came to me with recommendations from his father, who was a schoolmate of mine up in Stcuben County. After I read the note fi-om the father, I told the boy to take off his hat, sit down in a ohair, and tell me why he wanted to be a banker. His answer was: '* 'CauSe I'm good at multiplying.' " 'Well," said I, 'can't you substraet and divide, too?'

" 'Oh. yea,' he said, 'but because a banker wants to make all he can, I thought you wanted a boy who could multiply.' "I hired him on the strength of that."