3 wanted to be hired in the office—could count money and put on postage stamps fast.
Frank was not given to being very demonstrative on any occasion. As, however, he now began to stare at the next letter he opened and almost uttered a shout, Markham knew that something very much out of the ordinary had come up.
"What is it, Frank?" he questioned eagerly.
"Markham," said Frank, quite unnerved with excitement, "It's a big, big order."
"How big?" demanded Markham. "Quick, I'm on the edge of nervous prostration."
"Fifty to one hundred dollars," announced Frank, in quite a husky voice. "A few more of such orders and we'll know where we stand. It's from the owner of a general store at Decatur. He writes that he has purchased from an advertising agency fifty-two picture rebuses—easy ones—one for each week in the year. Accompanying them are fifty-two separate advertisements. These he intends to insert in his weekly paper. He wants to offer each week ten prizes for the ten persons who first appear at his store with correct solutions of the rebuses."
"I see," nodded Markham—"good Idea."
"He wants us to designate fifty-two novelties that we can supply, about half and half ten-and-
