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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER III
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I don't come of a family of Rabbonim.

I'm only a business woman.
It's the _froom_ people that I complain of; the people who ought to set an example, and are lowering the standard of _Froomkeit_.

I caught a beadle's wife the other day washing her meat and butter plates in the same bowl of water.

In time they will be frying steaks in butter, and they will end by eating _tripha_ meat out of butter plates, and the judgment of God will come.

But what is become of thine apple?
Thou hast not gorged it already ?" Moses nervously pointed to his trousers pocket, bulged out by the mutilated globe.


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