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"We would rather die first." "All right," Abe replied heartlessly. "Die if you got to. You can't make me mad." Mrs. Mashkowitz ignored Abe's repartee. "We don't ask nothing for ourselves, Potash," she said, "but we got it a sister, your wife's own cousin, Miriam Smolinski. She wants to get married." "I'm agreeable," Abe murmured, "and I'm sure my Rosie ain't got no objections neither." Mrs.
CAPT. JOSEPH ROSENFELD, 337th Amb. SGT. JACOB KANTROWITZ, "M" Co. LIEUT. JOHN J. BAKER, "E" Co., 339th Inf. PVT. CLYDE PETERSON, "K" Co. CORP. THEODORE H. SIELOFF, "I" Co. PVT. RAY LAWRENCE, "M" Co. CAPT. HORATIO G. WINSLOW, "I" Co., 339th Inf. CORP. JOHN C. SMOLINSKI, "I" Co. PVT. JOHN KUKORIS, "I" Co. LIEUT. LEWIS E. JAHNS, "K" Co., 339th Inf.
"But that afternoon there was a sure-thing mare going to start over to Guttenberg just as I happened to be passing Butch Thompson's old place, and I no more than got the ten dollars down than she blew up in the stretch. So I boarded a freight over to West Thirtieth Street and fetched up in Walla Walla, Washington." "Look a-here!" Abe gasped. "You ain't Scheuer Smolinski, are you?" Mr.
Then my wife's mother gives my wife's brother, Scheuer Smolinski, ten dollars to go out and buy some schnapps for the wedding, and that's the last we see of him, Mawruss.
"Me, I am Mrs. Sarah Mashkowitz, and this here lady is my sister, Mrs. Blooma Sheikman, geborn Smolinski." "That ain't my fault that you got them names," Abe said. "I see it now that you're my wife's father's brother's daughter, ain't it? So if you're going to make a touch, make it. I got business to attend to." "We ain't going to make no touch, Potash," Mrs. Mashkowitz declared.
I got an idee, Mawruss: we should give all our work to a decent, respectable young feller what is going to marry a cousin of my wife, by the name Miriam Smolinski." Morris looked long and hard at Abe before replying. "So, Abe," he said, "you squashed it in the bud!"
Small nodded. "That's me," he said. "I'm Scheuer Smolinski or Sidney Small, whichever you like. When me and Jake Berkowitz started this here Small Drygoods Company we decided that Smolinski and Berkowitz was too big a mouthful for the Pacific Slope, so we slipped the 'inski' and the 'owitz. Scheuer Small and Jacob Burke didn't sound so well, neither. Ain't it?
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