About
ten o'clock in the morning
` I 'll cut you off with a shillin ' , you young dog , ' as the Markis says to his nephew in the play at the Old Bowery . '' Fosdick did not venture to wear his new clothes while engaged in his business . This he felt would have been wasteful extravagance . About ten o'clock in the morning , when business slackened , he went home , and dressing himself went to a hotel where he could see copies of the `` Morning Herald '' and `` Sun , '' and , noting down the places where a boy was wanted , went on a round of applications . But he found it no easy thing to obtain a place . Swarms of boys seemed to be out of employment , and it was not unusual to find from fifty to a hundred applicants for a single place . There was another difficulty .