There are a dozen more cases just like that up stairs." "Ah! then I don't care about it," said Mr.Hadley, passing on.

The head of the large commission-house of Boniface Newt & Co.

looked upon the point of apoplexy.
"Good-morning, Mr.Newt; sorry that I see nothing farther," said Mr.
Hadley, and he went out.
Mr.Newt turned fiercely to the unconscious boy.
"What do you mean, Sir, by saying and doing such things ?" asked he, sharply.
"What things, Sir ?" demanded the appalled boy.
"Why, getting the yard-stick when I winked to you not to find it, and telling of other cases when I said that one was the last." "Why, Sir, because it wasn't the last," said the boy.
"For business purposes it _was_ the last, Sir," replied Mr.Newt.

"You don't know the first principles of business.

The tongue is always the mischief-maker.