Pitcher Pollock (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Pitcher Pollock "Want to hire a boy?" Mr. Cummings looked around and across the show-case at the youth who stood there. "Want to what?" he asked. "Hire a boy. I'm looking for a job." "Oh." Mr. Cummings turned back to his task of rearranging a number of carpenter's squares in a green box and made no other reply for a moment. The boy waited silently, watching interestedly. Finally, fixing the cover on the box and laying it on a shelf, "Ever worked in a hardware shop?" he asked. "No, sir." "I didn't suppose you had. What use would you be to me then, eh?" Mr. Cummings peered sharply at him. "I could sweep and run errands and-and wash windows and the like of that, " replied the applicant imperturbably. "I'll tell you how it is, sir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.