27/38 A young fellow from Scotland found himself strapped--" "Strapped? "You are terribly lacking in imagination. Broke, he means." "Oh, thanks!" "Well, finds himself broke," said Martin; "gets a shovel, jumps into a cellar--" "And why a cellar, pray ?" inquires "Lily" mildly. "To hide himself from the public ?" "Not at all; they were digging a cellar preparatory to building a house." "Oh!" "He jumps in, blisters his hands, breaks his back--but he stays with the job. In a week the boss makes him timekeeper; in three months he himself is boss of a small gang; the next year he is made foreman at a hundred a month or so." "A hundred a month ?" cries "Lily" in astonishment. |