Easily Adjusted.
"Mr Scrooge," said the bookkeeper, "this past week I did the junior clerk's work as well as my own. This being pay day, I thought it .only right to remind you." "Very good," saidj old Scrooge. "Let me see, your salary is two pounds and the clerk's one pound t" "Yes, sir," replied the bookkeeper, beaming expectantly. "Then, working half the week for yourself ie one pound, and the other half for the clerk is ten shillings. Your salary this week will be thirty shillings, and as you can comfortably do his work and your own as well, we will do without a junior in future."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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108Easily Adjusted. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 91
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