"It shines in the sun." "Is it like the one Bessie Sugarman's got ?" inquired the young man.
"Bessie Sugarman!" echoed Becky scornfully.

"She gets all her things from the tallyman.

She pretends to be so grand, but all her jewelry is paid for at so much a week." "So long as it is paid for," said Fanny, catching the words and turning a happy face on her sister.
"Not so jealous, Alte," said her mother.

"When I shall win on the lottery, I will buy thee also a dolman." Almost all the company speculated on the Hamburg lottery, which, whether they were speaking Yiddish or English, they invariably accentuated on the last syllable.

When an inhabitant of the Ghetto won even his money back, the news circulated like wild-fire, and there was a rush to the agents for tickets.