cond.

These arrangements made, our man of business rents an office in a
reputable rather than a fashionable quarter of the town. There is
nothing he more despises than pretense. "Where there is much show,"
he says, "there is seldom any thing very solid behind"--an observation
which so profoundly impresses his landlady's fancy, that she makes a
pencil memorandum of it forthwith, in her great family Bible, on the
broad margin of the Proverbs of Solomon.

The next step is to advertise, after some such fashion as this, in the
principal business six-pennies of the city--the pennies are eschewed as
not "respectable"--and as demanding payment for all advertisements in
advance. Our man of business holds it as a point of his faith that work
should never be paid for until done.

"WANTED--The advertisers, being about to commence extensive business
operations in this city, will require the services of three or four
intelligent and competent clerks, to whom a liberal salary will be
paid. The very best recommendations, not so much for capacity, as for
integrity, will be expected. Indeed, as the duties to be performed
involve high responsibilities, and large amounts of money must
necessarily pass through the hands of those engaged, it is deemed
advisable to demand a deposit of fifty dollars from each clerk employed.
No person need apply, therefore, who is not prepared to leave this sum
in the possession of the advertisers, and who cannot furnish the most
satisfactory testimonials of morality. Young gentlemen piously inclined
will be preferred. Application should be made between the hours of ten
and eleven A. M., and four and five P. M., of Messrs.

"Bogs, Hogs Logs, Frogs & Co.,

"No. 110 Dog Street"

By the thirty-first day of the month, this advertisement has brought to
the office of Messrs. Bogs, Hogs, Logs, Frogs, and Company, some fifteen
or twenty young gentlemen piously inclined. But our man of business is
in no hurry to conclude a contract with any--no man of business is ever
precipitate--and it is not until the most rigid catechism in respect to
the piety of each young gentleman's inclination, that his services
are engaged and his fifty dollars receipted for, just by way of proper
precaution, on the part of the respectable firm of Bogs, Hogs, Logs,
Frogs, and Company. On the morning of the first day of the next month,
the landlady does not present her bill, according to promise--a piece of
neglect for which the comfor