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Show TIME FLIES IN PHILADELPHIA. But the Boy in This Story Was a New Yorker by Birth. (Philadelphia Times.) A merchant in Chestnut street has become fond - of an office boy he engaged en-gaged last June. ' The boy entered early in the morning, when the merchant was reading the paper. The latter glanced up and went on reading without speaking. speak-ing. After three minutes the boy said: "Excuse me but I am in a hurry." "What do you want?" he was asked. "A job." "You do? Well," snorted the man of business, "why are you in such a hurry?" hur-ry?" "Got to hurry," replied the boy. "Left school yesterday to go to work, and haven't struck anything yet. I can't waste time. If you've got nothing for me to do say so, and I'll look elsewhere. The only place I can stop long is where they pay me for it." . "When can you come?" asked the surprised merchant. "Don't have to come," he was told. "I'm here now and would have been to work before this if you had said so." . mi m |