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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER VIII
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"Otherwise where would be the fun of being grown up?
After I leave school I don't intend to open a book." "No?
Perhaps you'll open a shop," said Solomon.
"What will you do when it rains ?" asked Esther crushingly.
"I shall smoke," replied Levi loftily.
"Yes, but suppose it's _Shabbos_," swiftly rejoined Esther.
Levi was nonplussed.

"Well, it can't rain all day and there are only fifty-two _Shabbosim_ in the year," he said lamely.

"A man can always do something." "I think there's more pleasure in reading than in doing something," remarked Esther.
"Yes, you're a girl," Levi reminded her, "and girls are expected to stay indoors.

Look at my sister Hannah.

She reads, too.


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