Excerpt from The Governor's Boss Her mother, owing to practice in tidily do ing her own clothes and the clothes for Ruth, was able to turn her hand to sewing for the neighbors - thus the wolf did not reach their door. Ruth, not quite purposeful enough to learn stenography or bookkeeping, or anything like a female profession, sought a position as tele phone operator, and after two or three years of assisting and substituting, finally reached the goal of her ambition. And no one has been heard to say that she did not perform her du ties with punctuality and dignity. Her grad nation from this position, or her degradation from it, as the reader may choose to regard it, must be reserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.