Before the return of the Stuarts he held a poor clerkship in the Navy Office and cut his quill obscurely at the common desk.

Write a letter to Senator Jackson answering in full his letter of September 7 to the Secretary of the Treasury in which he asks: "How must my nephew proceed to obtain a clerkship in the Treasury Department, under the Civil-Service Law, and what are the requisite qualifications of a good clerk?" FIFTH SUBJECT.

Besides these, there is hardly a respectable house among the white merchants, in which some important office, oftentimes the head clerkship, is not filled by a person of color.

Having resigned his clerkship, he pursued a bush life, and in 1872 made his first effort in the field of exploration.

" "Would you like a clerkship in a dry-goods store?"

He discussed the situation reasonably, then offered me a clerkship at headquarters, where I might escape the chief perils of the campaign and where perhaps my education would serve the public.

By her dexterity he sold the clerkship of his parish, when it became vacant.

Of course Vera had long ago seen that these inventions were never going to come to anything, that they were simply wasting Nicholas's time when he might, by taking an honest clerkship or something of the kind, be maintaining the whole household, and the very thought of him sitting in his workshop irritated her.

He was eager for a career in literature, but having to earn his bread, he bought a poor clerkship in the treasury office.

Encouraged by his literary success, he thought of throwing up his clerkship and trusting to his pen for a livelihood,a design from which he was happily diverted by his friends.

For, when all is said and done, we must needs look after ourselves, and when a young man of the age I was then arrived at is asked if he would like to exchange a clerkship of a hundred and twenty a year for a stewardship at more than four times as muchas a permanencyyou must agree that his mind will fix itself on what such an exchange means to him, to the exclusion of all other affairs.

After filling several clerkships in the Irish government, Spenser received a grant of the castle and estate of Kilcolman, a part of the forfeited lands of the rebel Earl of Desmond.

"Where are you going?" "Major Bancroft has given me the chief clerkship at the hotel.

Gaffney accepted the commission with alacrity; his brother, he said, was just then out of a job, having lost a clerkship through the sudden bankruptcy of his employers; such a bit of business as that which Mr. Appleyard had entrusted to him was so much meat and drink to one of his tastesin more ways than one.