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THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW
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"He ain't been in the place a year, y'understand, and to-night he marries a relation of his boss and he gets three hundred dollars in the bargain"
The
Competitive Nephew
By
MONTAGUE GLASS
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1915
Copyright, 1915, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY, N.Y.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Competitive Nephew | 3 |
| A Story of Business, Nepotism, Asthma, and Even Love | ||
| II. | Opportunity | 41 |
| How It Knocked but Once on Mr. Zamp's Door, and Found Him onthe Job | ||
| III. | The Sorrows of Seiden | 60 |
| Why You Should Never Even Begin with Your Wife's Relations | ||
| IV. | Serpents' Teeth | 99 |
| Showing That Sometimes They Bite Both Ways | ||
| V. | Making Over Milton | 147 |
| The Regeneration of a Lowlife | ||
| VI. | Birsky & Zapp | 186 |
| They Do Good by Stealth and Blush to Find It Pays | ||
| VII. | The Moving Picture Writes | 238 |
| And the Bella Hirshkind Home Nearly Makes a Haul | ||
| VIII. | Coercing Mr. Trinkmann | 288 |
| So That Louis Berkfield Gets His Job Back | ||
| IX. | "Rudolph Where Have You Been" | 304 |
| The Viennese Knockout of Two Continents | ||
| X. | Caveat Emptor | 327 |
| Meaning, the Buyer Would Better Look Out |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "He ain't been in the place a year, y'understand, and to-night he marries a relation of his boss and he gets three hundred dollars in the bargain" | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "You heard what Sam says, Aaron, and me, I stick to it also" | 28 |
| "Nu, Belz, ain't you going to congradulate me?" | 274 |
| She postured, leaped, and pranced by turns | 308 |
THE COMPETITIVE
NEPHEW
CHAPTER ONE
"That's the way it goes," Sam Zaretsky cried bitterly. "You raise a couple of young fellers up in your business, Max, and so soon they know all you could teach 'em they turn around and go to work and do you every time."
Max Fatkin nodded.
"I told it you when we started in as new beginners, Sam, you should got a lady bookkeeper," he said. "The worst they could do is to get married on you, and all you are out is a couple dollars cut-glass for an engagement present and half a dozen dessert spoons for the wedding. But so soon as you hire a man for a bookkeeper, Sam, he gets a line on your customers, and the first thing you know he goes as partners together