You Know What A Nuisance Young Assistants Are, Bothering About Their Chop, And Scorpions In Their Beds And Boots, And What Not And A Half, And Then, When You Have Pulled Them Through These, And Often Enough Before, Pegging Out With Fever, Or Going On The Fly In The Native Town.

Did you know poor B - -?

Well! he's dead now, had fever and went off like a babe in eight hours though he'd been out fourteen years for A - - and D - -. They sent him out a new book-keeper, a tender young thing with a dairymaid complexion and the notion that he'd got the indigestion. He fidgeted about it something awful. One night there was a big paw-paw on the table for evening chop, and so B - -, who was an awfully good chap, told him about how good it was for the digestion. The book-keeper said his trouble always came on two hours after eating, and asked if he might take a bit of the thing to his room. 'Certainly,' says B - -, and as the paw-paw wasn't cut at that meal the book-keeper quietly took it off whole with him.

"In the morning time he did not turn up. B - -, just before breakfast, went to his room and he wasn't there, but he noticed the paw-paw was on the bed and that was all, so he thought the book- keeper must have gone for a walk, being, as it were, a bit too tender to have gone on the fly as yet.

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