A GREEN HAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1695, 26 July 1879, Page 4

A GREEN HAND.

(From the “Danebury News) One of the plumbing establishments of Danebury took in a new journeyman the other day. Ho was from a hamlet over in New York State, a little hamlet where he had worked with his father. The day after his arrival there was a burst in the water-pipe of a house on Pine street. He was told to go over there and attend to it. Sesing the owner of the house in the shop, he went up to him and got the particulars of the break, and then made ready his tools and started. Just as he was passing out of the door the proprietor saw him. ‘Where aro you going?' ho almost screamed. The new man told him.

“Do you mean to tell me that you are going up there to fix that pips without examining it?’ he gasped. * Why, I am going to look at it when I get there,’ euid the now man.

‘Merciful Heaven!’ ejaculated his employer, catching hold of the desk to support himself. ‘ Can it be possible that you would do a job at one visit ? Don’t you know your trade bettor than that ? Have you no pride in your business ? Why, you’d ruin the entire community in lees than a year !’ And the speaker burst into tears. As soon as ho grew calmer ho exploited to the new man that he should first visit the house, make a thorough examination of the building, get the lay of the streets, find the location of the nearest hydrant, go up to the roof of the house, and then return thought fully to the shop for his tools, keeping an accurate record of the time.