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The police darted round to the new battlefield, expecting an attack upon doors and windows, and Bloomah was hastily set down in the seething throng and carried with it in the wake of the police, who could not prevent it flooding through the broken side gate. The large playground became a pandemonium of parents, children, police, and teachers all shouting and gesticulating. But there was no riot.
Beckenstein broke her leg, and lay for weeks with the limb cased in plaster-of-Paris. That finished the chances of the Banner for a long time. Between nursing and house management Bloomah could scarcely ever put in an attendance.
In Bloomah's class alone as if inspired by her martial determination the ranks stood firm, unwavering. The epidemic spread. The Ghetto began to talk of special psalms in the little synagogues. In this crisis which the epidemic produced the Banner seemed drifting steadily towards Bloomah and her mates.
Bloomah took to her heels, her face a fiery mass of shame and grief. Towards midday Becky's fish, nicely browned and sprigged with parsley, stood cooling on the great blue willow-pattern dish, and Becky's neuralgia abated, perhaps from the mental relief of the spectacle.
Curt post-cards came on these occasions, thus conceived: 'DEAR MOTHER, 'A son. Send Bloomah. Sometimes these messages were mournfully inverted: 'DEAR MOTHER, 'Poor little Rachie is gone. Send Bloomah to your heart-broken 'BECKY. Occasionally the post-card went the other way: 'DEAR BECKY, 'Send back Bloomah. 'Your loving mother.
'Lock up the house! the latter would cry, when Bloomah tearfully pleaded for that course. 'My things are much too valuable to be locked up. But I know you'd rather lose my jewellery than your precious Banner. When Mrs. Beckenstein had new grandchildren and they came frequently Bloomah would be summoned in hot haste to the new scene of service.
To explain how she came to be outside the school-gates instead of inside them, we must go back a little and explain her situation both outside and inside her school. Bloomah was probably 'Blume, which is German for a flower, but she had always been spelt 'Bloomah' in the school register, for even Board-school teachers are not necessarily familiar with foreign languages.
'She didn't go to school with the Meshummodim. Bloomah suddenly picked up her satchel. 'What's your books for? You don't fry fish with books. Mrs. Beckenstein wrested it away from her, and dashed it on the floor. The pencil-case rolled one way, the thimble another. 'But I can get to school for the afternoon attendance. 'Madness! With your sister in agony? Have you no feelings?
So now, then, Bloomah Beckenstein! Don't they teach you here: "Honour thy father and thy mother"? Poor Bloomah rose, feeling vaguely that fathers and mothers should not dishonour their children. With hanging head she moved to the door, and burst into a passion of tears as soon as she got outside. After, if not in consequence of, this behaviour, Mrs.
Keep them away rather than let them be poisoned to enrich the doctors. There followed statistics to appal even Bloomah.
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