“I shall try my level best.”
“Wish I could git a job fer ye. But I don’t know nubuddy.”
“I am going to try the hotels next. I have a strong letter of recommendation from a hotel man.”
“If ye don’t git no work in Philadelphy come out on my farm. I’ll board ye all winter fer nuthin’,” went on Josiah Bean, generously.
“Thank you, Mr. Bean; you are very kind.”
“I mean it. We don’t live very high- falutin’, but we have plenty o’ plain, good victuals.”
“I’ll remember what you say,” answered our hero.
An hour later he saw the countryman on a train bound for home, and then he started once more to look for a situation.