When I get up in the mornin' I can almost tell every time whether a job has become vacant over night, and what department it's in and I'm the first man on the ground to get it.

Only last week I turned up at the office of Water Register Savage at 9 A.M.and told him I wanted a vacant place in his office for one of my constituents.

"How did you know that O'Brien had got out ?" he asked me.
"I smelled it in the air when I got up this mornin'," I answered.

Now, that was the fact.

I didn't know there was a man in the department named O'Brien, much less that he had got out, but my scent led me to the Water Register's office, and it don't often lead me wrong.
A cosmopolitan ain't needed in all the other districts, but our men are just the kind to rule.