noon
ALL day long Archie washed dishes , and before night came he decided that he had never before had such discouraging work . The restaurant was a popular one , and there were very many dishes to be washed , to say nothing of the pots and pans which were always dirty . Archie no sooner finished one sink full of dishes than another large pile was waiting to be put through the same operation , and there was no time at all for looking about him . There was hardly time for eating , even , and at noon he was only able to snatch a few mouthfuls . The work was not interesting , and it was a new sort of labour to Archie , so that altogether he did not get on as well as he might have wished . The cook was constantly nagging him , and telling him to hurry up , and the poor lad tried his best to please him . But somehow everything went wrong , and he was hardly surprised when the proprietor came in at six o'clock with a new man for the place .