Show MAKING THE BEST OF A BARGAIN I 1 T MADE a thoroughly bad bargain I 1 with grover when I 1 was nineteen I 1 wanted very much to got get into his business and learn the details of it and I 1 presume I 1 showed my eagerness and lie took advantage of me cruelly I 1 was to stay with him for a year for a trilling trifling remuneration and during that time he was to teach me as much of his trade as I 1 could master precious little he taught me but I 1 really learned more that year than during any similar time before or since I 1 had never before been subject to anyone id never had a boss excepting my own will and pleasure but I 1 was to learn what it meant to work under orders to do unpleasant and difficult things and never to receive a word of praise for the doing I 1 was ordered about by everyone la in tile effim all the drudgery and the dirty work was shunted upon me and there were tasks that had bad to be done dona no matter how much overtime it took I 1 was slave and roustabout I 1 picked up a good deal of information ormar about the business but chati jot cattle came from my own initiative I 1 coull could of course have thrown up my job but I 1 was too proud and this would have hav seemed to me ine to show a yellow streak I 1 had gone into it of my own choosing and with my eyes open and I 1 was determined ter mined to see the thing through all the time however I 1 was wag learning to cent control rol myself under tile the most irritating conditions I 1 was learning to obey orders to take sarcastic criticism and ragging without a comeback even when hen I 1 knew I 1 was right I 1 was working dally ally to the point of exhausting I 1 was getting scarcely cely enough pay to buy the food that I 1 ate and I 1 was learning what it means to be a subordinate tile the year came to an end finally and I 1 have always been glad that I 1 kept my bargain for I 1 learned lessons that have been invaluable to me during all the years which have intervened I 1 know what it meats mears to make a hard bargain and keep it to curry carry through something that Is difficult find and unpleasant when J Y have once begun it it to stick even chel it a change might bring me m more mirney and an easier time and a pleasa pleasanter plea santer itter environment to pay without whimpering the penalty of bad judgment and hasty decision and I 1 know I 1 am stronger for the lesson |