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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER III
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Put aside five shillings of your takings and get another basket, and so you will be able to live till the tailoring picks up a bit." Moses listened as if he had never heard of the elementary principles of barter.
"May the Name, blessed be It, bless you, and may you see rejoicings on your children's children." So Moses went away and bought dinner, treating his family to some _beuglich_, or circular twisted rolls, in his joy.

But on the morrow he repaired to the Market, thinking on the way of the ethical distinction between "duties of the heart" and "duties of the limbs," as expounded in choice Hebrew by Rabbenu Bachja, and he laid out the remnant in lemons.
Then he stationed himself in Petticoat Lane, crying, in his imperfect English, "Lemans, verra good lemans, two a penny each, two a penny each!".


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