In his walks about the streets he several times observed cards in the window indicating that an errand boy was wanted.

He resolved, however, that this should be the last resource which he would adopt, as he would much prefer to go to work as a common lad in a factory to serving in a shop.
After the first week he answered many advertisements, but in no case received a reply.

In one case, in which it was stated that a lad who could write a good fast hand was required in an office, wages to begin with eight shillings a week, he called two days after writing.

It was a small office with a solitary clerk sitting in it.

The latter, upon learning Frank's business, replied with some exasperation that his mind was being worried out by boys.
"We have had four hundred and thirty letters," he said; "and I should think that a hundred boys must have called.