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"With me I bet yer if I would ride in an oitermobile once, y'understand, the least that would happen to me is I should break my neck." "How could you break your neck in a brand new car like that Pfingst car downstairs?" Kleebaum insisted. "Never mind," Abe answered, "if things is going to turn out that way, Mr. Kleebaum, you could break your neck in a baby carriage yet."
So naturally he ain't no business man, y'understand, because you know as well as I do, Noblestone, a business man ain't got no time to fool away on such nonsense." "Sure, I know," Noblestone agreed. "But what makes Federmann so dumb? He's been in the cloak and suit business all his life, ain't he?" "What's that got to do with it?" Zudrowsky exclaimed.
If that ain't nutty, now what is?" "The third Wednesday, eh?" says I. "That's to-morrow, ain't it?" "Sure," says Tessie. "Which is why you can't see her to-day. She's in trainin' for the big event y'understand?" "But I'd like to set her mind easy on this stock proposition," says I. "Wish you could," says Tessie. "She's been stewin' a lot over something or other. Must be that.
I ain't got such liberal idees about shipping clerks as you got, Abe, but all the same, Abe, I think I could go at this business with a little system, y'understand." "You shouldn't trouble yourself, Mawruss," Abe replied, with an airy wave of his hand. "I hired one already." "You hired one already, Abe!" Morris repeated. "Well, ain't I got something to say about it too?" "Again kicking, Mawruss?"
"Nowadays, if a feller wants to make a success he must got to wear good clothes and look like a mensch, y'understand? It never harms in business, Shapolnik, that a feller should throw sometimes, oncet in a while, a little bluff." Between the ages of sixteen and twenty Sidney Koblin had so often tested the maxim, "Boys will be boys," that Max Koblin's patience at length became exhausted.
"A feller like him sells you a three-thousand-dollar violin for fifteen dollars which he ain't got a penny in the world, y'understand, and I should stand by and see him get done!" Professor Wcelak hung his head and blushed. "Also, Louis," Emil concluded, "I just rung him up at the café, and he says whatever he gets out of it I get half."
And you could bet your sweet life, Abe, Sunday afternoon, comes three o'clock, I am right there at his mother's house with the cut glass, and don't you forget it." Abe nodded grimly. "It's a free country, Mawruss," he said, "and nobody could stop you going to an engagement party which is in the paper, y'understand; but you shouldn't forget one thing, Mawruss.
"Sure not, Mawruss, I'm lucky if I get to a funeral oncet in a while. Ike," he broke off suddenly, "you better get them statements mailed." Ralph Tuchman rose sadly and repaired to the office. "That's a smart young feller, Mawruss," Abe commented, "and while you can't tell much about a feller from his face, Mawruss, I never seen them long ears on anyone that minded his own business, y'understand?
"He made plenty money in his time," Morris commented. "Yes, and lost it again too," Max added; "but what's the use talking? Money I ain't in need of exactly, y'understand." "You need goods, Max," Abe said. "Is that it?" "Well, I do and I don't, Abe," Max replied. "The fact is, Abe, I got a good business down in Johnsville, but I couldn't extend it none on account the place ain't big enough.
Couldn't you find it maybe a young feller which is already established in business, y'understand, and what needs doch a little money?" Noblestone slapped his thigh. "I got it!" he said. "I'll go around and see Sam Feder of the Kosciusko Bank."
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