When tired Bill came upon a suit of clothes on the bank of the river he apparently did not realize that they belonged to somebody else. Accordingly he discarded his own disheveled garments, put on the suit of clothes, and hearing a wild shout of protest from the water set off hurriedly up the road. In the pocket of the suit, Bill found a note recommending the bearer as an expert butler. Bill went to the address given in the note, and readily procured a position. Dressed in the ornate clothes of a butler, Bill felt that earth could hold little more of grandeur for him. Gregory, the real applicant for the position, arrived in Bill's clothes and told Bill the story of his misfortune. Bill unsympathetically kicked him down the steps. It can hardly be said that Bill was an entire success as a butler. To begin with, he insisted on smoking his clay pipe while serving dinner. Also, Bill was not exactly a picture of grace and he had a mind above small details. For instance, if out of a dozen plates of soup he only dropped two he considered it a very fair average indeed. After a few incidents of a nerve-wracking sort, the Melville family decided that Bill's services could be dispensed with. Then the Melville family departed to seek a less frenzied dinner in a restaurant, while Bill donned his new clothes, and departed for pastures new. Unfortunately, Gregory, the disappointed applicant, was still larking about the premises. When Bill sauntered forth Gregory recognized the clothes and had Bill arrested. After that to Bill's sorrowful amazement Gregory pulled a large roll of bills from an unsuspected pocket of the salt and set off to explain matters to the Melvilles while Bill was marched protestingly to the station house.
Where to Watch Tired Bill's Career as a Butler
