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Always up to now I got fine weather crossing, but the way the water has been the last six days, Abe, I am beginning to think I could get just so good idees of the season's models right in New York." "D'ye know, Moe," said Abe, "I'm starting to feel hungry? I wish that feller with the shofar would come."
"Sounds like business was poor already. Ain't you working no more?" "I am and I ain't," Mozart replied. "I'm supposed to be selling goods for Klinger & Klein, but since I only sold it one bill in two weeks I ain't got much hopes that I'll get enough more money out of 'em to move me out of town." "What do you make next, Moe?" Abe asked. "St. Paul and Minneapolis," Mozart replied.
"Yessum," said Inky Mike, whose name happens to be Moe Sapperstein. "What are you doing to that unfortunate person?" "J-j-just a little j-j-joke," replied the other in what was doubtless intended for a light-hearted and care-free tone. "Let him down." Inky Mike hesitated. "At once!" snapped the Duchess and stamped her foot. "Yessum," said Inky Mike meekly.
Toole and Devereux drew back a little into the shadow of the opposite buildings, for while they were waiting, a dusky apparition, supposed to be old Drought in his night-shirt, appeared at that gentleman's windows, saluting the ambassadors with mop and moe, in a very threatening and energetic way.
This story might have ended here, but it has a little sequel. The $1,750 which Bruin had to his credit in the bank had increased to $2,290; and it was all paid to Lars. A few years later, Martin Janson, who had inherited the estate of Moe from old Lars, failed in consequence of his daring forest speculations, and young Lars was enabled to buy the farm at auction at less than half its value.
At the same time Ratu Lala's two little children, Moe and Tersi, started off, in charge of Ratu Lala's Tongan wife and other women, to be educated in Suva. It was the first time they had ever left home, but I agreed with Ratu Lala, that it was time they went, as they did not know a word of English, and, for the matter of that, neither did his Tongan wife.
And the people of the City by the River, seeing him far off, cried out: "Hast thou found the Secret of the gods?" And he answered: "I have found it, and the Secret of the gods is this" : Zyni Moe, the small snake, seeing the figure and the shadow of a man between him and the cool river, raised his head and struck once.
For by all the lights of the Five Points, Chinatown Mulberry, Canal, Franklin, Lafayette and Centre streets Pontin's Restaurant, Moe Levy's One Price Tailoring Establishment, and even by those of the glorious days of Howe & Hummel, by the Nine Gods of Law and more Caput Magnus was a learned savant.
"They air in better houses then we po white uns, thur chilan air er wearin better cloes an er gittin moe larnin then our'n. An gentermen surs jes tackle eny er them little uns er'n an they'd surprise yer; why they kin spit latin faster then er terbacky worm kin spit terbacky. Who give ther nigger ther stick ter break our heads? Who done it I say?
Morris replied. "Ralph ain't no harder than Moe or Jake, Abe. For my part, I ain't got no trouble in remembering that name; and anyhow, Abe, why should an up-to-date family like the Tuchmans give their boys such back-number names like Jake or Moe?" "Jacob and Moses was decent, respectable people in the old country, Mawruss," Abe corrected solemnly.
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