“No, if you choose to come for three dollars we will take you a week on trial.”
Joshua shook his head.
“I can’t afford it,” he said; “I must look around a little more.”
The next place at which he made application was a dry-goods store.
“I see you want a clerk,” he said.
Joshua happened to be the first applicant here.
“Yes; have you experience?”
Now Joshua had tended a little in his father’s store, when the other clerk was at dinner, and he thought it might help his cause to answer in the affirmative.
“Yes,” he said, “I have had experience.”
“In this city?”