The boys got newspaper positions and clerked in the stores, and one or two of them tooted cornets or other disturbances at summer-resort hotels.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
Dolph Wartrace, you know, that keeps the cross-roads store nigh us, clerked in Darley before he went in on his own hook out here, an' I've heard 'im tell of a lot o' pranks that they had over thar.
"The Desired Woman"
Will N. Harben
He and Lincoln clerked in the same store and slept together on the same cot.
"Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian?"
John B. Remsburg