That's what I've come to you for.

I saw your ad in the Item, and--I want a job.' "I was set all aback, and left with my canvas flappin', as you might say.

Sol Bearse's boy huntin' a job in a hotel kitchen! Soon's I could fetch a whole breath, I wanted partic'lars.

He give 'em to me.
"Seems he'd been sent out to one of the colleges in the Middle West by his dad, who was dead set on havin' a lawyer in the family.

But the more he studied, the less he hankered for law.