HE TOOK THE HINT.
* How much salary are yon getting now?’ asked an inquisitive and gossipy yonng scribe, addressing an old veteran of the newspaper be was on. * I am now receiving seventy three dollars and fifteen cents, a week, including my board, a bottle of champagne at dinner, all my expenses, cigars, sixteen suits of clothes a year, a trip to Europe in the summer, and no night work. On the whole, I cannot complain ; but why do you ask?’ The question was not answered, as the youngster had stood not upon the order of his going, but gone.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue I, 5 January 1895, Page 24
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100HE TOOK THE HINT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue I, 5 January 1895, Page 24
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