“No, it won’t; I mean to walk over the bridge.”
“You’ll have to leave the house earlier.”
“I guess I will, and get home later; but when a fellow is looking for work, things don’t always come his way. However, I mean to try for all my New York ads first.”
“Oh, that Brooklyn place will be gone long before you cover all these other jobs. It won’t be worth while bothering about it.”
“I’m not letting anything get by me.”
Which showed that Jack Hazard was a persevering boy: and perseverance is one of the greatest factors of success through life.
The two boys parted at the entrance to the freight elevator of the Vandewater Street printing house, and Jack turned into Frankfort Street, crossed over to William, and began his daily hustle for work.
At many places he found a crowd already collected before he arrived, and after waiting a short time failed to secure an interview, as some boy ahead of him got the job.
One place the man wanted him to work every Saturday till ten at night, and offered him the munificent sum of $3.50 per week, with a prospective raise of fifty cents at the end of six months.
Jack refused this, as he believed he could do much better, and besides he really could not afford to work for so small a sum.