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kept you in Cheder another day so out whether they were tight.
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"Tight? These shoes tight?" said
you wouldn't be making a nuisance
of yourself in the house? As if we Gedalia. "I think that another pair 1- t-Xj
haven't enough work without having of feet like those of your son could
you here. Some folks have children get into these shoes."
D'
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I stamped my feet; I walked around
who can sit quietly in one place.
Couldn't a boy like you, a boy almost pressing down the soles of my abuse's. I
tl years old, sit down and review the wanted to hear them creak, but not a
sound.
'Four Questions?'"
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Mother yelled at nie: "What are
"But, mother, I know them all by
you doing? Trying to tear them?
heart!”
"Wonderful. Didn't it cost us Wait, you will have time to do that.
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Now go with your father to Yachiel,
enough?"
I could hardly wait for nightfall the hatter, and get yourself a cap.
A
SPOILED
PESACH
when my father took a candle and a But don't pound so with your shoes.
PASSOVER
II
wooden spoon and with a goose quill They are not made of iron."
By Shalom Aleichent.
Fetcher and I went to Yachiel, the
brush went around in search of
"Mama,
I
am
free,"
I
yelled
us
I
Passover has come around again—
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Churnetz, with me to help him find hatter.
EVERY EVENING
a few days be-
A busy season.
(Adapted from the Yiddish by II. G.) came running home
"Hello, Hello!" said Yachiel in a
the
bread
crumbs
which
he
had
him-
fore Pesach and I continued with my
10:00 P. M. to 1:00 A. M
friendly voice. "For whom do you
6:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M.
good news. "We have been dismissed self put on the window sill. Only one
All the preparations had already
The mother cleans the house
day noire, I thought to myself, only want a cap? For yourself or for your
from Cheder."
My
mother
hail
taken
And hums at her work;
son?"
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been 1111111V.
"Good news? Tell that to your one night and one day and then I
No hiding crumb escapes her watch- me to Yisroel, the Deaf, and she haul
"For niy son," said father. "But
shall dress in my holiday best. I shall
grandmother. May you live to bring
gotten him to promise that he would
ful eye.
dress up like a prince with my coat give him something good, fine, you un-
better news," my mother answered.
make me a suit in time for Pesach.
derstand?"
She was upset by all the preparations with the slit in the back and with a
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"Sure," said Yachiel and reached
The father goes about his business
She had given him all directions. It
pocket inside the slit, and my new
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for Pesach. She had tied white ker-
With a new spring in his step.
was to be long enough to permit my
shoes will creak. And mother will up to his shelves. "I have just what
chiefs on the heads of both maids and
Passover's a happy time you see.
growing. It was to be wide enough
surely ask me, "What is all of this you want for him." He took hold of
had given them brushes—the wings
for me to move about in.
creaking about?" and I will make be- a cap and turned it quickly around on
of a goose—and she had tied a white
The children, too, lift high their
Then she haul taken me to Gedalia,
lieve that I know nothing about it. the end of his finger. Ile placed it on
kerchief on her own head, and all
the
shoemaker.
He
was
a
little
Jew
voices,
And then I think of the Seder, of the by head and walked off to see how it
three of them were cleaning and
"Passover is coming, Passover is corn- with a red beard who danced on one
Four Questions, of the four wine sat. Then cone began fitting on
brushing, washing soul scrubbing for
foot as he spoke to you. He skipped
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cups and all of the l'esach dishes; others.
Pesach. I could not find a place in
Finally Yachiel reached up to a
a few steps and then promised my
latkes, kneidlach, kugel and chrem-
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the house. No matter where I turned
Season of joy and happiness,
mother that he would have the shoes
sach. I thin of all these goodies and shelf, took down a cap, swung it
all ready for me in time for Pesach. or walked or stood I was in the way. my mouth begins to water. I hadn't around on his finger, set it on my
Why am I sad?
But mother was not there when "Get away with your Chometz- eaten for a whole day.
head. lie did this carefully as if my
Is it that I sorrow for a day gone by, after Cheder I went back to Reb Yis- clothes from the Pesach closet," my
"Say your prayers," my mother head were made of thin glass and then
mother yelled at me Angrily, as if I
For past glories of my people?
reel, the tailor. I wanted him to I
tells me, "and go to bed. There is 110 began to praise the cap. "What a
make my coat with a slit in the back were approaching a chest of powder supper today. This is Pesach eve."
beauty it is," he said. "How beautiful-
Or that I think of the none too brit- and with a pocket underneath the slit.) with a burning match.
I go to bed and dream that it is al- ly it sits on his head."
"Be careful, you are stepping on a
I saw that father liked the cap and
hunt present
I went into his place and after wait-
ready Pesach. I am going to school
When we ape the Gentiles
ing a long time and hearing his work- new Pesach bag.
with my father—niy new clothes rus- he paid for it.
"Don't even dare to look into that
By the time we got back to the
And, heaven forgive us,
ers simc their funny songs, I got to
tle: my boots creak, creak creak.
Call this holiday "The Jewish Eas- Reb Yisroel. Ile heard me and after corner. That's where the I'esach "Who is that on'ur there?" ask the house the cap had settled down over
Borsht
is
standing."
ter."
he took a pinch of snuff he promised
passers-by who don't know us. "Why my ears. Mother looked at the cap
Free of Charge to Employer.
I move about from place to place,
he would make me a coat with a slit
Let us be Jews,
that's Mattel Moishe, the son of Chaim and pulled it down a little farther. I
get into everybody's way and am
And lift our head in pride!
told her it felt a little large. But she
and a pocket.
Avroom
Hersh
Rubin."
pushed and punched and shoved
Then I went to the shoemaker. Ge-
Suddenly there appears a black, said, "No harm if it is, so long as it
After all, Passover is a happy season delis was not there, but his workman, about.
ins to bark at me is not too small." Then she pulled it
"Couldn't that rebbi of yours have shaggy dog who
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promised
to
do
what
I
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grabs me by the coat. My down until it settled on my nose. She
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father stands by, afraid to approach. warned nie against taking it off and
against
touching
it.
"Wear
it
in
good
Ile waver his arms about an shouts
at the dog. But the dog pays no at- health!" she said.
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tention to him and keeps tugging
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away at me. Finally he tears udi half
Finally nightfall came and I went 103
niy coat and starts running MT. I run to shoot with father. All of the boys
after him as fast as I can, lose a shoe were there: Isaac and Beryl, and Lei-
on the way and remain standing in bel and Zaddick and Velvet and Shmai
Don't Wait. Your Time and Faro.
the mud, one foot in the air. I cry and Kopel and Meyer and Chaim.Sho-
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and shout, "Help, help, help."
lom and Shetchnah and Shipsel and
Then I was up and see our maid, still others.
Belle, standing near me, pulling at my
I had told all of them what a tine
blanket and tugging at niy foot.
Pesach suit I was going to get; what
"Some job, getting you up," Beile a slit the coat would have; what a fine
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said y .0 must get out of bed. You slit and how any shoes would creak
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and the goose-quill brush into the suit!" said one.
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stove and also burns the Chometz. The
"Where's the slit?" said another.
house becomes real Pesach-dig. All
"And where are those creaking
is clean and sweet. The table is set: shoes?"
the four cups blink at nie from a dis-
"And what sort of bowl is that cap
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I could not say anything. How
to bring my holiday garments my meanly I had been treated by Reb
neither takes me in hand. She scrubs Yisroel and by Gedalia's workman!
niy head and cleans it with scalding They had promised to make my gar-
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to dodge away and she presents me laughing at me.
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with a nudge in the ribs with her el-
Well, we got home. Everything
bow.
was ready for the Seder. Father look-
"Will you stop wriggling like a ed like a king in his white skullcap
worm? Can't you stand still for a and the white robe he was wearing.
moment? I'm doing this for your good Mother looked like a queen, with her
and you are not satisfied."
bright, happy face. The two maids
The combing and scrubbing over, I looked happy for the holiday.
I should take life easy selling so, I
sit at the table in my shirt. I wait
I sat opposite father, a "prince."
merchandise. Let me give you
for my new clothes and stare at my dressed in new garments.
father who has just come from the
Father began to chant in his fine
ride in • 4 or 6.
baths and whose ear-locks are still voice. Mother helped him lift the
wet. Ile bends over a thick book and large dish in front of him.
studies quietly, chanting and rocking
We were all seated. Father leaned
back and forth.
back on his bedded throne. Everyone
I look at my father and it seems to looked toward me to begin the Four
h t th .rt . is not another .1 C W in Questions.
me that
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a Pesach as in our house; that no one by the throat. Two tears suddenly
will have clothes as nice as mine. But detached from his eyes and rolled
why don't they conie? What has hap- down his cheeks, rolled and rolled and
pened? I won't even think that they fell upon the Ilagadah.
may not be ready. How will I show
"What's wrong with you? Why this
my face in shoot? What will the boys sudden crying, just at the Seder?"
say? If they didn't come, it would he mother yelled at me. "Is this the way
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in which you thank us for the new
As I sat thinking these unhappy clothes we ['ought you, which were
desire(
thoughts Yisroel, the tailor, marched made for Pesach?"
in. In my joy I leaped up and tum-
The "prince" wants to stop crying
bled over with the chair. I almost and can't do it; he is choking but the
broke my neck. Mother rushed in tears flow on. A well of tears has
from the kitchen, a dripping spoon in opened within him.
her hand.
"Tell me what is wrong? What
"What's all this noise about? Who pains you? Why don't you talk?
fell? You? Devil that you are! De- Speak or do you want father to
i stun! You are no child of mine! Did stretch you on his knees and fix you
you hurt yourself? Serves you right. in honor of Pesach?"
Why run and lump? Can't you walk
The "prince" rises and begins the
yr
!like a human being?"
Four Questions.
Turning to Yisroel, she said:
"Question, I will ask you Four fa-
"You are true to your word, Rub thers—I mean—Father, I will ask you
• Yisroel. I was just about to send fur Four Ques—Ques—Ques-
you."
the "prince" staggers to his feet;
delay.
Yisroel smiled gently and waved hi' his head falls to the table and he cries
hand, as if to say: Nothing new about and sobs like a baby.
. that; I always keep my word.
A spoiled Pesach, a spoiled Pesach!
)lather put down her spoon and
helps nie into the new pants. She
i helps me on with the new talis-koten
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I put my hand behind me. Alas!
Not even the trace of a slit or a pock.
The coat was sewed up all around.
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Mother suddenly turned to Reis Y's-
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Ile said he would put a creak into
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And after that I ran out into the
street and met my friends, Velvel and
Beryl, and Chaim-Sholom and all the
others and I told them what a fine
suit I was getting: a coat with a slit
and a pocket, and I told them about
the tine shoes was a special "creak,
creak, creak" in them.
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"II ump? 1V here did you see a
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f. Id which you asked for."
"Fuld—a lovely fold."
lout Itch Yisroel did not seem to
mind mother's words. Ile turned me
around and around and then said that
it fitted perfectly. "Such work is not
turned out even in Paris! That coat
sings, on my word, it sings."
"How do you like the way it sings?"
mcther said to father as she brought
me to hint Father turned me around
and looked at me up and down. Then
he said to Reb Yosroel, "The pants
are little long, Itch Yisroel!"
"What! Oh! Rather long, you
say?. Don't you know what one does?
' Roll them lip."
"You may he right," answered
father. "But what's to he done if
they are too wide, like two sacks?"
"Too wide, you say? It would be a
thousand times worse if they were too
tight!"
I continue to feel of the coat. I
reach my hand behind but cannot find
the slit or the pocket.
"What are you looking for?" moth-
er says to me. "Are you trying to find
yesterday?"
But I cannot answer. I look at Reb
Yisroel and gro , •,' angry at him. Did
he net prom' he would make a slit
docket into the coat?
and put
it in good health," said Reh
"W
oel to me and took the money
mother gave him for his work.
Just then Geulalia, the shoemaker,
Mother put them on my feet and
came in with my shoes.
prodded them with her fingers to find
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