What helped the man to get his first job?

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What idea flashed through his mind?

What happened at the end of the week?

Company?

4) Describe Colonel Pope. What was his answer to the
young man's story?

5) Why did the man still hang on though he found out
that the company was laying off hands?

6) What question did the Colonel ask Ыщ?

10) What job was the young man offered in the long
run?

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Discuss the following:

1) Say if you agree or disagree with the statement "wa-

ter would find its level". How do you understand it? Give examples in support of your opinion.

2) Give a character sketch of the main hero. Compare
him with the heroes of the story "Success Story."

3) Is the problem of unemployment acute nowadays?
Why? Is this problem interconnected with the prob­
lem of wasted lives? Give your grounds.

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Retell the text using the following:

to start for, to make smb. comfortable, to get oneself established, to be of utmost importance to smb., appli­cation for a job, to give smb. an advertisement, alert, by way of introduction, out of a job, to want badly, to lay off hands, to hang on, earnestness, to look sharply at, willing, to scrub floors, to ride, to engage, to dis­charge, to place in charge of, to have a chance with, to keep an eye on_r to edit, to flash through one's mind, to run an ocean steamer, to get the words out of one's mouth, to change one's mind, to doubt.

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