MAKING APPOINTMENTS

Today was a very good day for me, I had been looking for a new job for quite a while. I listed my name for a few employment agencies and was given infomation about several positions, but I wasn't interested in any of these jobs. Last week I filled out an application form for a new company in town and arrange for a personal interview. Several men were interviewed for this job, and I didn't know if I would get it. This morning someone from the company called up and asked to see me at two o'clock. When I came into his office, he told me that I was hired. I shall begin working on next Monday, I know I like this job. I shall be paid very well and my work will be extremely interesting. I was feeling so happy, I decided to cancel all my appointments for the rest of the days, and I went right home to tell my mother the good news. But before I could say anything to her, she told me what a bad day she was having. None of the lights in the house was working. She had telephoned many electricians, but they said they were to busy. Finally, one of them agreed to come, and she had been waiting for him almost all day. When I was able to get her trouble over and listen to me, I told her about the new job, and we planned to make a special party among our family and we made up our mind to forget about the electricians,  and we decide to celebrate until dawn. Then we wouldn't need any lights any way.

A YOUNG NOBLEMAN

A young man was a french nobleman, the son of one of the richest and most important families of France. He heard about the revolution of America. He wanted to come and help. He was only eighteen years old. He was tall, handsome, familiar figure in the high society of Paris. His family tried to stop him, they asked the King of france to throw him into jail in order to stop him. But the young nobleman had already bought his own ship and gathered some friends to go with him. He escaped and came to America. The young man was Marquis of Lafayette. He arrived and discovered that no one knew him here. He had been promised he would be an officer in the army, but congress said that they wanted no more foreign officers, Lafayette sat down and cried. He couldn't go back to France, he offered to serve as a volunteer without pay, congress accepted him. Later, Lafayette met Goerge Washington, agreat effection grew up between father and son, Lafayette became his own personal aide. Ones toward the end of the war, the men under lafayette's command were all in rags. Lafayette asked for new unifrom. Congress had no money to buy the unifrom. Using his own personal credits, Lafayette went to the merchants of Baltimore, and at his own expenses, bought a new unifrom for each man, two thousand suits of clothes. On this way his men were able to go on fighting.