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Gents: Your favor of the 14th inst. received and contents noted and in reply would say the young fellow what you inquire about ain't got no future with us and the prospects is he gets fired on Saturday. We trust this is satisfactory. Truly yours, POTASH & PERLMUTTER. On Saturday afternoon Morris Perlmutter was putting on his hat and coat preparatory to going home.
A singular devotion to duty marked every action of Emanuel Gubin, shipping clerk in the wholesale cloak and suit establishment of Potash & Perlmutter. That is to say, it had marked every action until the commencement of Miss Kreitmann's incumbency. In the very hour that Emanuel first observed the luster of her fine black eyes his heart gave one bound and never more regained its normal gait.
"And now, gentlemen, let us fix up this copartnership agreement," Max Gershon said as Aaron Kronberg slunk out of the office, followed by Leon Sammet. "Mr. Potash and Mr. Perlmutter have wasted pretty near the whole afternoon here." "That's all right," Abe said. "I don't consider we wasted any time.
When so sure as you are standing there, Louis when I told him it was a genu-ine Amati he pretty near got a fit already; and as for his partner by the name Perlmutter, he hollered so I thought he was going to spit blood already." Louis licked his dry lips before making any reply.
Marks was in the furniture business on Third Avenue, and that he lived on Lenox Avenue near One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. "Why, you are practically a neighbor of Mawruss Perlmutter," Abe cried. "Is that so?" Mr. Marks said, as they reached the elevated railway. "Yes," Abe went on, "he lives on a Hundred and Eighteenth Street and Lenox Avenue." "You don't say so?" Mr. Marks replied. "Well, Mr.
Forthwith he unfolded to Leon the sum of his uncle's iniquities, sparing no detail of his own well-nigh ruined prospects and ending with an account of Uncle Mosha's interrupted deal with Morris Perlmutter. Leon slammed the top of his desk with his open hand. "Before I would let that shark, Perlmutter, get the house I would buy it myself." "Sure, I know!" Aaron replied.
"The feller couldn't even talk ten words English at all." "Sure, I know," Morris Perlmutter admitted; "but he would quick learn." "Quick learn!" Abe exclaimed. "What d'ye mean, quick learn? Nowadays I never seen the like!
Bramson went on; "but if it wasn't you it was your partner there, that Mawruss Perlmutter. Yesterday I seen him up to the Heatherbloom Inn, Abe, and I assure you, Abe, I was never before in my life in such a high-price place coffee and cake, Abe, believe me, one dollar and a quarter." He paused to let the information sink in. "But what could I do?" he asked.
Perlmutter, Leon Sammet this morning buys from me for thirty dollars silver to be sent to the same place on One Hundred and Eighteenth Street as that there perculater, and he didn't kick only a little that I am charging him fifty cents express." "What!" Morris exclaimed. "Is Klinger sending that perculater up to One Hundred and Eighteenth Street too?"
"This agreement," it ran, "made and entered into between Abraham Potash and Morris Perlmutter, composing the firm of Potash & Perlmutter, of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, parties of the first part, and Enrico Simonetti, of the same place, party of the second part, witnesseth " At this point Abe dropped the contract.
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