THE BOY WHO FITTED IN
One of the world's successful men told some young men recently how, when he was a boy working in a hardware shop, he wanted to leave when he was put to cleaning windows, and the young girls"~he called on saw him. The boy complained to his father, who advised him to do the cleaning and to do his best. • If you do whatever is given you to do to the best of your ability,' said his father, ' your employers won't find it profitable to keep you long at window cleaning.' Another boy asked a merchant for a position. He was given one, and all went well for a few days. Then, the boy was set to work cleaning windows. His pride rebelled ; he threw up his job and went home. In a few hours another boy appeared. 'I'm Jim's brother,' he annoxmced, 'and I'd like io have his job. I'Jl clean windows or do whatever you want me to do.'
'Jim's brother,' added the gentleman, 'has already had one rise in wages, and is one of the best boys we ever had.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 13 May 1909, Page 757
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187THE BOY WHO FITTED IN New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 13 May 1909, Page 757
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