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I Read Stories: Bartleby The Scrivener

  Bartleby The Scrivener Our narrator, a 19 th century Wall Street lawyer, has three employees, known by their nicknames. First is Turkey who is calm until his dinner hour, twelve noon, afterwards excitable and blots his work. The second is Nipper who is always angry and slapdash in the morning, but calms down in the afternoon. The third is the office boy, Ginger Nut, who mostly runs errands. As his business is going well, the lawyer employees a new man, Bartleby, who seems generally calm all the time, which is a bit easier on him. Their main job is scrivener, or perhaps copyist. As most legal documents required more than one copy (one for the lawyer, one for the other lawyer, one for the court, one for the client, one for the city records etc etc depending) and printing was not appropriate for these small numbers, clerks had to make copies. This went on relatively well until one day the lawyer asks Bartleby to stand with his copy as the lawyer reads it to check for errors. Bart

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