A HAIR ON THE PEN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 4, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 27.

A HAIR ON THE PEN.

“WHY didn’t you keep that boy?” asked one merchant of another, referring to a boy who had applied for a position in his office.

“I tried him, but he wrote all morning with a hair on his pen. I don’t want a boy who hasn’t sufficient gumption to remove a hair from a pen.”

“That is a very slight thing for which to condemn a lad.”

“Pardon me, but I think it a very sufficient reason. There was a hair on the pen when he began to write, for I put it there to test him. I am satisfied that I read his character from that one thing.”—Anon.