Joe the Hotel Boy

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 21


"As it is you, I will remove twenty-five cents", the employee answered.

"And does he/she sell me him for two dollars?" asked his/her client that had good person
you cause for his/her inaccurate arithmetic.

"For two dollars and seventy-five cents."

"Two dollars and seventy-five cents! You/he/she is taking out the bread of the
the mouths of childer you would have us, while paying such price as that! I will give
You two twenty-five, a' I will come again some duration."

"We could not take so low as two twenty-five, ma'am. You can have him/it for
two dollars and a half."

After another ineffective attempt to find him/it for two dollars and a
you quarter, the Irish woman finally offered two dollars and forty-five
cents, and this offer was approved.

You extracted a paper of change and it counted out two dollars and forty
cents, when she declared that she didn't have another cent. But the employee
understands his/her game and it proceeded freshly I handed again the coat the
pole. Then the woman very you opportunely find another piece of five-cent
stored away in the angle of his/her pocket.

"It is robbin' me, yes are", it said her as her it paid him/it ended.

"Oh, no, ma'am, you are finding a great bargain", he/she answered to the employee.

Joe had testified to the bargaining with a lot of fun of quiet. As
soon as the Irish couple the employee had gone you/he/she came toward the boy.

"Well, young, thing I can do for you?" he asked, pleasantly.

"I want a suit to dress. Not an expensive suit, but one guaranteed
is every wool."

"A light or a dark suit?"

"A grey dark color."

"I can be all right out her in an excellent suit of this order", and the employee sharpened
to very lying near in a heap.

"I don't want that kind. I want anything on the order of those in the
window marked nine dollars and a half."

"Oh, every right."

Many suits were produced, and one was found that Joe went well
very well.

"Does it guarantee this every wool to be?" asked to the boy.

"Every thread of him."

"Then I will pick him/it up."

"Very well;  the price is twelve dollars."
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