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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

"Get Busy."

page 59

"Get Busy."

A salesman asked permission to « get off » for an afternoon, as « we are not busy to-day »; but in less than ten minutes one of his special customers had called for a promised package not yet ready, and this during one of those unaccountable rushes where there are two customers for each salesman.

It is a great mistake to absent one's self « because we are not busy. » Get busy, young man; just look around and see what you can find to do to add to the attractiveness of the store and the convenience of transacting business.

There is a full blank-book without its wrapper—the dust will soon transform it into a job-lot addition.

There is a lid off an envelope-box; you noticed it yesterday, but as someone else had left it so you thought he ought to replace it. Meanwhile note the result.

There is a broken shelf-box; the last time you went to it part of its contents fell through the bottom, but it was not part of your stock, and you pushed it back without a word.

There are a torn wrapper and a bunch of twine on the floor; they have been there for an hour and look badly; but it will be sweeping-time in another hour or two and you do not gather them up.

Several articles have been sold from the sample board and not replaced. Stock is kept in the basement, and is sure to be called for just as you are about locking up for the night with no light down below.

There are half-a-dozen inkstands sampled without tags to designate number or price; it will take you some time to identify them, and your customer may not be willing to wait while you hunt up catalogues and figure discounts.

There is an empty shelf box which should be full of Faber's No. 2. The stock is near the ceiling, and, just as you have started to show a line of fine papers, you must clamber up after the dusty goods.

You searched vainly to-day for the box of tin check cutters; there it is among the envelope stock—you neglected to cover up the « XXX White Wove » label, and this is the consequence.

There are some goods received yesterday, but not yet put in place. It would take only five minutes to do this, but there they have remained for twenty-four hours.

؟Not busy? Oh, bosh! Young man, get busy! —American Stationer.