"I don't see how I am going to do it, with both our work piled on me," said Peter. "And besides, I'm a farmer born and bred; I wouldn't have the first idea about how to get a boy a job in the city or what he ought to do or have. Mickey is on to all that; he'll go with you, won't you Mickey?" "Sure!" said Mickey. "And you can save a lot by using my room. It is high, but it's clean"--Junior scowled but Mickey proceeded calmly--"and while it gets hot in the daytime, if you open the door at night, and push the bed before the window, it soon cools off, while very hottest times I always take to the fire-escape. It's nice and cool there." "Of course! That will be the ticket," said Peter heartily. "A boy starting with everything to learn couldn't expect to earn much, and when you haven't Ma and me to depend on for your board you'll be glad to have the bed free. 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." "Well," said Mickey calmly, "there's making things, that's factories. There's selling them, that's stores. There's doctors, and lawyers, that's professional, like my boss. And there's office-holders, like the men he is after, but of course you'd have to be old enough to vote and educated enough to do business, and have enough money earned at something else to buy your office; that's too far away. Now if you don't like the street, there's the other three. The quickest money would be in the first two. If you were making things, what would you make?" "Automobiles!" said Junior. "All right!" said Mickey, "we can try them first. If we can't find a factory that you'd like, what would you rather sell?" "Automobiles," said Junior promptly. "Gee!" said Mickey. "I see where we hit that business at both ends. If we miss, what next?" "I don't know," said Junior. "I'll make up my mind when I have looked around some."