d sooner play auction pinochle than
eat, and that's the reason why he could never hold it a job."

"Why shouldn't he hold a job, Abe?" Morris asked. "If I would have a
crackerjack drummer, for my part he could play the whole book of Hoyle,
from _klabbias_ to _stuss_, and it wouldn't affect me none so long as he
sold the goods."

"Maybe you're right, Mawruss," Abe admitted. "But when a feller fools
away his time at auction pinochle his business is bound to suffer."

"Well, then, here's a feller answers by the name Mozart Rabiner," Morris
continued. "Did y'ever hear of him, Abe?"

"If you mean Moe Rabiner, Mawruss," Abe replied. "I never knew his name
was Mozart before, Mawruss, but there was a feller by the name Moe
Rabiner what used to work for Sammet Brothers, Mawruss, and that feller
could make the pianner fairly talk, Mawruss. If he could only get a lady
buyer up against a pianner, Mawruss, he could sell her every time."

Morris tore up Mozart's application.

"So long as a feller fools away his time, Abe," he said, "it don't make
no difference either he plays auction pinochle or either he plays the
pianner. Ain't it?"

He opened another envelope and scanned the enclosed missive.

"This sounds good to me, Abe," he said, and handed the letter to his
partner. It read as follows:

4042 PROSPECT AVE., September 18/08.
MESSRS POTASH & PERLMUTTER,

_Gents_:--Seeing your ad in to days Record and in reply would beg
to state am a first class, womans outer garment salesman selling
only to the high class trade. Was for three years with one of the
largest concerns in the trade traveling to the coast and making
Tooson, Denver, Shyenne and Butte, selling the best houses in
Frisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angles, Fresno &c &c &c. _Am all
for business and can give A 1 references._ At present am
unnattached but expect quick action as am neggotiating with one
of the largest speciality houses in the trade. _Ask no favors of
nobody but results will show._
Yours truly
MARKS PASINSKY.

"By jimminy!" Abe cried after he had finished reading the letter.
"That's the feller we want to hire it, Mawruss. Let's write him
to call."

It would hardly be violating Marks Pasinsky's confidence to disclose
that he held himself to be a forceful man. He never spoke save in