A coal merchant had advertised for a, boy. A red-headed, red-faced boy applied for the job. “Do you like work?” asked the merchant. “ No, fir,’’ said the boy. “Then you can have the job. You're the first hoy who’s been here to-day and hasn’t told a lie.” Clothes make the man. Lack of them makes the woman.
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Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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57Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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