The Archive · 1931

His Employment

'The call of spring can be heard! even through reinforced concrete. On a day like yesterday when_ all the world, except a few patient toilers, is at play, the call becomes almost stentorian' and the man at his desk finds time to curse the work which keeps him there when his fellow-men are on the golf course. the That things might be worse is sometimes cold comfort. The thought, however, considerably cheered one worker yesterday who upon return ing to his desk after staring dolefully atthe sunlight reflected on the grey wall. of the building opposite, found confronting him the account of the hearing of a charge against man whose job was to wash the tiger in acireus. And it was a live tiger. The task is enough to reconcile anyone to other work on a lotions Easter Monday bank holi-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account