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`` I 'll try them , anyway , '' said Nat . `` And I am much obliged to you for telling me about it , '' he added . On the following morning he was up as before and got the list from the papers again . Fortune was now with him , and at noon he found a position in a wholesale paper house . One of the clerks was going to visit some relatives down south , and Nat was hired to fill his place , at seven dollars per week . `` You 've struck luck ! '' cried Dick Talcott , on hearing the news .