A Hint to Boys

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 23, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 8.

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I stood in the store of a merchant, the other day, when a boy came in and applied for a situation.

“Can you write a good hand?” he was asked.

“Yaas.”

“Good at figures?”

“Yaas.”

“That will do; I do not want you,” said the merchant.

“But,” said I, when the boy had gone, “I know that lad to be an honest, industrious boy. Why don’t you give him a chance?”

“Because he hasn’t learned to say, ‘Yes, sir,’ and, ‘No, sir.’ If he answers me as he did when applying for a situation, how will he answer customers when he has been here a month?”—Selected.