"No. You will go back, of course, and explain that you have obtained a clerkship which necessitates your moving downtown.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
"One day he got a blank application for a $75.00 clerkship in the Post Office.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
It was not easy, with my little experience of life, to see how these things should enter into an estimate of me, or why Herr Ignaz should concern him with other attributes of mine than such as touched my clerkship; but as I was entering on a world where all was new, where not only the people, but their prejudices and their likings, were all strange to me, I resolved to approach them in an honest spirit, and with a desire to conform to them as well as I was able.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever