A STORY OR STANLEY.
When Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, landed in New Orleans he was a bare-footed boy. He applied at one of the newspaper offices for a job as errand boy. The manager, impressed by his alertness, engaged him for night, duty ; then, observing his bare feet said: “Run home first and put on some stockings.” “ I haven’t got any,” said Stanley. “ Well, can't you get some ?” “ I’ll try,” said the boy. “Come back with shoes and stockings or I can’t take you,” said the manager ; and Stanley went out to face a harder problem than was the search for Livingstone. After thinking it out, he slipped back into the business office and button-holed the day boy. “ Have you got another pair of shoes and stockings ?” he asked. “ No,” said the other. “ Well,you get off at six o’clock, don't you? I’ll give you fifty oents when I get paid if you’ll lend me your shoes and stockings for a week. I’ll leave ’em under the desk every morning for you.” The boy did so and Stanley got a start.
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Waipukurau Press, Issue 301, 27 August 1908, Page 2
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181A STORY OR STANLEY. Waipukurau Press, Issue 301, 27 August 1908, Page 2
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