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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER XII
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"Make an end, make an end!" "You see he knows I'm right," murmured the Shalotten _Shammos_ to his circle.
"And if you are!" burst forth the impeached Greenberg, who had by this time thought of a retort.

"And if I do sing the Passover _Yigdal_ instead of the New Year, have I not reason, seeing I have _no bread in the house_?
With my salary I have Passover all the year round." The _Chazan's_ sally made a good impression on his audience if not on his salary.

It was felt that he had a just grievance, and the conversation was hastily shifted to the original topic.
"We mustn't forget the _Maggid_ draws crowds here every Saturday and Sunday afternoon," said Mendel Hyams.

"Suppose he goes over to a _Chevrah_ that will pay him more!" "No, he won't do that," said another of the Committee.

"He will remember that we brought him out of Poland." "Yes, but we shan't have room for the audiences soon," said Belcovitch.
"There are so many outsiders turned away every time that I think we ought to let half the applicants enjoy the first two hours of the sermon and the other half the second two hours." "No, no, that would be cruel," said Karlkammer.


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