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He is lovin' much mit that dog und that dog is lovin' much mit him." "Well, now, perhaps you could teach Rover to walk on his hind legs, and carry things in his mouth," suggested Teacher; "and as for this new little Christian friend of yours " "I don't know be he a Krisht," Morris admitted with reluctant candor; "he ain't said nothin' over it to me.
You ain't no Krisht; you should better have no kind feelings over Krishts, neither; your papa could to have a mad." "Teacher ain't no Krisht," said Morris stoutly; "all the other fellows buys her presents, und I'm loving mit her too; it's polite I gives her presents the while I'm got such a kind feeling over her." "Well, we ain't got no money for buy nothings," said Mrs. Mogilewsky sadly.
The dialect spoken by the child in this story is the American adaptation of the Yiddish, which is a German dialect spoken by the Jews of eastern Europe, containing many Hebrew and Slav expressions. Board of Monitors. A group of children appointed by the pupils to help the teacher in various ways. Krisht. Christian. Rabbi.
He returned to the from-silk apron, wound a short arm round the white collar, and sobbed: "Teacher, yiss ma'an, you'm got a Krisht nose. But don't you care, no one couldn't never to know like you ain't a for sure Sheeny the while you got such terrible Sheeny eyes. Oh, but they couldn't never to think you're a Krisht. Und say, don't you have a frightened. I wouldn't never to tell nobody. Never.
Teacher bent her head and Morris whispered in an awe-struck voice: "My mamma says she like that: 'He could to be a Krisht," and then drew back to study Teacher's consternation. But she seemed quite calm. Perhaps she had already faced the devastating fact, for she said: "Yes, I know he's a Christian. I'm not afraid of them. Are you?"
"Teacher, no ma'an, Missis Bailey, I ain't got no scare over Krishts, on'y they ain't no friends for ladies. My papa says like that on my auntie, und my auntie she's married now mit a stylish floorwalker. We'm got a Krisht in our house for boarder, so I know. But you couldn't to know 'bout Krishts." "Yes, I do. They're very nice people." "No ma'an," said Morris gently.
He could well understand the heart of that Krisht, for Teacher was very beautiful and of splendid array. Her jumper was red, with golden buttons, and her collar was white, and her hair was soft, with combs. And she had a light face and a little bit of nose and teeth. Her apron was from silk with red ribbons and red flowers, and she had like man's-shoes and a watch.
And then still more courteously: "It's a lie. You couldn't to know about Krishts." "But I do know all about them, Morris dear. I'm a Christian." Again Morris remembered his manners. Again he replied in his courtly phrase: "It's a lie." As he said it, with a bewitching rising inflection, it was almost a caress. "It's a lie. Teacher fools. You couldn't to be no Krisht.
I seen her on the street once und she had looks off of Krishts. I don't need no Krishts. You don't need them neither. They ain't for us. You ain't so big like I could to tell you how they makes mit us in Russia. I don't like you should hold so much over no Krisht. For us they is devils."
And then, quite suddenly, Isaac lifted up his voice: "Don't you dast to touch me," he yelled, "you Krisht fool." Miss Bailey sprang to her feet, but before she could reach the offender he had warmed to his work and was rolling off excerpts from remarks which he had heard at his father's club-rooms.
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