Granite State Magazine Author:George Waldo Browne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Heson (or By George Bancroft Griffith CALLED a few days ago upon a gentleman in a neighboring city, who is a prosperous business man and who is rather note... more »d among his friends for having an exceptionally fine appearing business place. "How is it that you have such a magnificent dash to your business system, and this air of superiority in your whole establishment, from your office boy up ?" we asked. "Not many years ago," he replied, "I commenced my career as an office boy in an insurance office which presented a model of executive management, neatness and clock-like system. "To the training I got there, and a lesson my good mother gave me, I attribute much of my success. Not long after I had learned to sweep the office effectually, a number of my friends got up a sleighing party and invited me to join them. I thought my happiness for life depended wholly upon going for a young miss of whose society I was very fond, who was anxious to go, and I was afraid if I failed to come to time my rival would take advantage of my absence and suddenly undo all I had accomplished by hard work. "But the expense of the ride for myself and girl would be ten dollars, and at that time a dollar looked about as large to me as a good-sized cartwheel ought to. I found out, however, that I could get two seats with the driver for five dollars and, as my young friend was willing to sit there, I decided to take those instead of paying double the price for the other seats. I thought I had done a good thing in saving so much and spoke to my mother about it, expecting her praise, but she looked displeased and said : chapter{Section 4"'My son, I would not on any consideration allow you to go on this ride in such a way. Go first-class or not at all. If there are any fifteen-dollar seats get th...« less