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Get a good grip on the part of your life you can control , and do n't worry over the rest . '' To economize both time and money Dave took his lunch with him and ate it in the warehouse . He had also become possessed of a pocket encyclopaedia and it was his habit to employ the minutes saved by eating lunch in the warehouse in reading from his encyclopaedia . It chanced one day that as he was reading in the noon hour Mr. Trapper , the head of the firm , came through the warehouse . Dave knew him but little ; he thought of him as a stern , unapproachable man , and avoided him as much as possible . But this time Mr. Trapper was upon him before he was seen . `` What are you reading ? ''