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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...if the world should turn upside down. LIBBE (with disdain). A tailor Humph The crazy notion NAHMEN. So I threw myself into many things, sniffed and licked at this and that, a American business. And once I happened to be sitting with our Brokhe a just as now, on a Saturday evening, and she has a phonograph, and the phonograph played, and suddenly I was struck by an idea. You blockhead, you Here you have a golden business Why should you have to knock about America with a thousand trades and never a blessing? a Rather buy yourself such a hurdy-gurdy, take it back home with you and youve got a business from businessland. THE MOTHER. Gods hand To think that he should sail to America, and there should live our Brokhe, and she should have such A. machine, and the machine should play, and he should be struck by the idea. Ah, Lord of the universe, what a God we have in heaven LIBBE. We needed some recompense, indeed, for all the troubles we have gone through. FATHER-IN-LAW. Well, and when the idea struck MOTHER-IN-LAW. Cant you see? So he went and bought one. NAHMEN. When the idea struck me I told no tales, but went off and bought a hurdy-gurdy and went to my people and said: Im going back home a How? What? What do you mean? a Just what I say Everybody comes to America to make money, and I intend to return home to make money.a So they all looked at me and laughed. How do you expect to return home and make money, when youve come from there because you never were able to make ends meet? a And they began to tell what I was in the old country, that all I was good for was to poke around with my cane and play chess and not know what to do with myself. So I laughed. Youll soon be hearing big things of me, I told them. Youll get the big news...."
| ISBN-13 | 9781152048584 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152048589 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $16.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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