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And in the second place, Mawruss, if you got to make a hog of yourself, do it at dinner-time at home, because when a feller takes up a whole hour having his lunch, Mawruss, he naturally stuffs himself so full that he ain't no good for the rest of the day."
"Geh wek, Mawruss," Abe cried disgustedly; "you talk like a fool!" "Do I?" Morris shouted. "All right, Abe.
Would you believe me, Abe, I tried to get up a game of auction pinocle there and I couldn't do it! Nobody would play less than a dollar a hundred. I'm surprised to hear the place is run down so." "Oh, if the house's got a big reputation for auction pinocle, Mawruss, then that's something else again! They play just as high as former times. Sidney Koblin lost forty dollars last night.
I tell you, Abe, a feller has got to ride in one of them things to appreciate 'em." "S'all right, Mawruss," Abe cried. "I take your word for it. What I am worrying about now, Mawruss, is this here Kleebaum." "Kleebaum is A Number One, Abe," Morris said. "I was talking to Fixman about him and Fixman says that there ain't a better judge of an oitermobile between Chicago and the Pacific Coast."
"Of course, Mawruss, people's got their likes and dislikes," Abe said; "but all the same I seen it many a decent, respectable feller with a good business, Abe, what wants a little accommodation at his bank.
Abe grabbed his hat and turned to Morris with a savage glare. "Sure, I know what you are going to do, Mawruss," Potash bellowed belligerently. "Henceforth, from to-morrow on, you are going to do this, Mawruss: you are going to lunch after I am coming back. I could drop dead from hunger already for all you care. I got a stomach too, Mawruss, and don't you forget it."
"Ain't it funny, Mawruss," Abe said, the morning of Louis' expected return "ain't it funny he ain't mentioned that house to us since we spoke to him the last time he was home?" "I know it," Morris replied, "but you needn't worry, Abe.
"Well, Abe, maybe you think that's a joke you should keep me here a couple of hours already," Morris said. "Many a time I got to say that to you already, Mawruss," Abe rejoined. "But, anyhow, I didn't eat it so much, Mawruss. It was Hymie Kotzen what keeps me." "Hymie Kotzen!" Morris cried. "What for should he keep you, Abe? Blows you to some tchampanyer wine, maybe?"
"Look a-here, Mawruss," Abe said at length: "who d'ye think I seen it up at the Prince William Hotel?" "I ain't no mind reader, Abe," Morris replied. "Who did you seen it?" "Miss Atkinson, cloak buyer for the Emporium, Duluth," Abe replied. "That's Moe Gerschel's store." Morris stopped comparing the statements, while Ralph Tuchman continued his writing.
"In the first place, Cyprus is too near Sarahcuse, y'understand; and if one of them yokels wants to buy for thirty dollars a garment for his wife, if he is up-to-date, he goes to Sarahcuse; and if he is a back number he goes to Sam's competitors! What's the name now? Van Buskirk & Patterson. Yes, Mawruss, back numbers always buys from back numbers."
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