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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER VII
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I made one of the poems an acrostic on his name, so that he might be handed down to posterity.

There, that's the one.

No, the one on the page you were just looking at.

Yes, that's it, beginning: "'Great leader of our Israel's host, I sing thy high heroic deeds, Divinely gifted learned man.' "I wrote his dedication in English, for he understands neither Hebrew nor German, the miserable, purse-proud, vanity-eaten Man-of-the-Earth." "Why, didn't he give you anything at all ?" said the Reb.
"Worse! He sent me back the book.

But I'll be revenged on him.


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