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`` Still , I do n't feel quite so green as when I first reached New York . I at least know something about the streets and the stores . '' Nat lost no time in looking for another place . But nothing turned up Monday or Tuesday , and Wednesday it rained so hard that he did not go out until after noon . Then he visited a fashionable wholesale jewelry establishment . Here he was asked to wait , while one of the proprietors interviewed a young man who had come in ahead of our hero . The young man was dressed as a perfect dude , with a light checked suit , and very light gloves .