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    New Hire
    New Hire
    New Hire
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    New Hire

    By Dave Dryfoos

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      New Hire - Dave Dryfoos

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of New Hire, by David M. Dryfoos

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: New Hire

      Author: David M. Dryfoos

      Illustrator: John Balbalis

      Release Date: September 23, 2010 [EBook #33969]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW HIRE ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from the September 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      NEW HIRE

      By DAVE DRYFOOS

      Illustrated by BALBALIS

      Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!

      ne thing about an electronic awakener: no matter how elaborate its hookup, melodious its music, and important its announced reminders, when it goes on in the morning you can always turn it off again. Boswell W. Budge always did exactly that.

      But there's no turning off one's kids, and thus, on the most important morning of his life, February 30, 2054, Bozzy arose, much against his will, promptly at 0800.

      His Sophie, eight and ladylike, merely shook the bed with a disdainful gesture. But Howard, six, masculine, and athletic, climbed right up and sat on Bozzy's stomach. Baby Ralph, of the golden smile, gave Bozzy a

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