Discharged for Cause

Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

Discharged for Cause

'No, that young man isn't working here anymore!' snapped Dodoon. 'Wh»tdid I discharge him for ? For ioattention to business. Do you suppose chat I want any one round here watting his time writing letters 6o 'Dirling Tootaib' and 'Precious Dtrling?' 'When my wife went away for her vacation I promised her faithfully to write every day under penalty of buying her a new gown if I skipped a day. Well, I did for three days, and then I commenced dictating them to my private secretary, who wrote them oab for me on his'bype writer. The tecond week I told him to go ahead aod write them himae'f, as he knew what to sty as well as I did. I believe I promitei to raise his salary if ho succeeded in makiDg them models of the letter-writing ait. I looked the first few over and found them to be better than if I had written them myself ; co I shook hinds with him and told him to keep it up. 'After a few days I h \d so muoh confidence in bis letter- writing abilities that I gob into the habit cf signing them and sending them to Mrs Dodson without) taking the trouble bo re id them. There was where I made a "mistake, bub it wouldn't have happened if that young fool had been attending to his busines 3 . The infernal idiot has a 'Darling Tootsie' to whom he writes every day, and he made a mistake and banded me the wrong letter, which I promptly signed and sent to my wife. 'That expiaias why she suddenly out her vacation sho t and 'returned to town. It also explains why that yount; man no longer works here, aad why tho office cat has been under the safe for three days and still refuses to come out.'