ide of his till to the other for the box he wants, but
is now uncertain of the number, and recurs once more to the note and the
schedule. At length he cautiously deposits the money in a box.
Presently, after going through this process once or twice more, he is
convinced that he has been wrong. He institutes search throughout his
till to find his note again, and at last this cause of all his
perplexity settles in a box not to be again disturbed until that remote
hour of the day when he shall be ready to "count out." In the evening,
when he is expected to "turn in" his cash, he finds himself from one to
eighty or a hundred notes "over" or "short." His knuckles are more or
less raw from collision with the partitions of his till, his face is
flushed, and his hand trembles. In high excitement, seeing himself
waited for, he takes up a package which he put up for a hundred notes,
but which in his opinion may possibly contain a hundred and eleven or
only ninety-nine. He counts it through with an attempt at aptness, and
as he lays down the last note he whispers "fifty-five." In the end two
or three experts are set to help him, and in a few moments the
inconsiderable number of notes which formed his chaos are reduced to
order. In the later experience of the agency, however, instances of this
extreme bewilderment are rare. Every consideration is shown the
beginner, and the perfect organization of the office enables him to be
led up by the slowest and easiest gradations to the more difficult
labor. Besides, in appointments, which latterly are of infrequent
occurrence, a decided preference is given to bank clerks and others
whose previous training serves in some sort as an education.

When a clerk has finished assorting his cash, he next proceeds to count
out the contents of each box, putting up the notes in packages of even
hundreds of dollars, and pinning round them yellow straps, if he has
unfit money, and pink if fit. On the strap of each package he writes in
pencil the amount, the group number, his initials, and the date. The
notes of all the groups in excess of even hundreds of dollars are thrown
together and finally counted and put up as "odds." This process
complete, the full packages are done up, by means of cardboards and
rubber bands, into bundles of a thousand notes each. The aggregate being
found to correspond with the sum received in the morning, the assorter
enters on his book in duplicate the amount of full packages a