Thank you Mickey, that's fine!"
Junior did not look as if he thought it were. Presently he asked: "How
much money ought I to take to start on, Mickey?"
"Hully gee!" said Mickey. "Why your fare in! You're going to make money,
kid, not to spend it. If I was turned loose there with just one cent I'd
be flying by night, and if I hadn't the cent, I'd soon earn it."
"How could you Mickey?" asked Junior eagerly.
"With or without?" queried Mickey.
"Both!" exclaimed Junior.
"Well, 'without,'" said Mickey, "I'd keep my lamps trimmed and burning,
and I'd catch a lady falling off a car, or pick up a purse, or a kid, or
run an errand. 'With,' there'd be only one thing I'd think of, because
papers are my game. I'd buy one for a penny and sell it for two; buy two,
sell for four; you know the multiplication table, don't you? But of course
you don't want a street job, you want in a factory or a store. If you
could do what you like best, what would it be Junior?"
Junior opened his mouth several times and at last admitted he hadn't
thought that far: "Why I don't know.
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