seven in the morning
` Well , you keep it up and you will get ahead of the boys who do n't . ' `` Work ? I worked like a beaver . I was due at seven in the morning . I was always there several minutes before seven . One morning the old gentleman came in real early and found me at work , while a couple of the other boys were reading the papers and waiting for the seventh strike , and before most of the stock boys had shown up . At noon I would wrap bundles , take a blacking pot and mark cases , run the elevator or do anything to `` keep moving . ''