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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER VI
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"If you don't stand over them as the Egyptian taskmasters over our forefathers, they don't do a stroke of work except breaking the crockery.

I'd much rather sweep a room myself than see a _Shiksah_ pottering about for an hour and end by leaving all the dust on the window-ledges and the corners of the mantelpiece.

As for beds, I don't believe _Shiksahs_ ever shake them! If I had my way I'd wring all their necks." "What's the use of always complaining ?" said Hannah, impatiently.

"You know we must keep a _Shiksah_ to attend to the _Shabbos_ fire.

The women or the little boys you pick up in the street are so unsatisfactory.


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