noon
Never crowded the fashions and never gave 'em any slack . If sashes were the thing with summer shirts , why Charlie had a sash , you bet , and when tight trousers were the nobby trick in pants , Charlie wore his double reefed . Take him fore and aft , Charlie looked all right and talked all right -- always careful , always considerate , always polite . One noon , after he had been with me for a year or two , I met him coming in from his route looking glum ; so I handed him fifty dollars as a little sweetener . I never saw a fifty cheer a man up like that one did Charlie , and he thanked me just right -- did n't stutter and did n't slop over . I earmarked Charlie for a raise and a better job right there . Just after that I got mixed up with some work in my private office and I did n't look around again till on toward closing time .