Excerpt from Winning an Heiress: A Trace in One Art Seven Male Characters Scene: - Room in small flat, New York City. The room is furnished fairly well, is t very neat, and is decorated with pennants, posters, etc. Window, center, back. Doors right and left up stage. Shelf and mirror, left. Table, center, with newspapers, writing materials, smoking articles, etc. Lounge, right of window, chair left of window, chairs right and left of table. Over the windozu, rear, is a poster which says We Should Worry! Piperack left of window. Curtain rises discovering Henry Hardup and Ben Borrow seated at center-table. Henry right; Ben left. Their coats and vests are missing, and both are reading newspapers on which appear in large letters, Help Wanted, Male. Ben snatches knife from table and quickly cuts out ad. Ben. How's this, Hennie? This just suits muh! (Reads) Wanted, handsome young man, plenty of brains, good family, quick at figures, pleasing manner, well educated, fond of children, good disposition, thoroughly honest, doesn't drink, smoke, chew, play cards or stay out late. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.