Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass
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"Again kicking, Mawruss?" Abe exclaimed. "You yourself told me I should
find a shipping clerk, and so I done so." "Well," Morris cried, "ain't I even entitled to know the feller's name at all?" "Sure you are entitled to know his name," Abe answered. "He's a young feller by the name of Schenkmann." "Schenkmann," Morris said slowly. "Schenkmann? Where did I--you mean that feller by the name Schenkmann which he works by Max Linkheimer?" Abe nodded. "What's the matter with you, Abe?" Morris cried. "Are you crazy or what?" "What do you mean am I crazy?" Abe said. "We carry burglary insurance, ain't it? And besides he ain't, Mawruss, Max Linkheimer says, missed so much as a button since the feller worked for him." "A button," Morris shouted; "let me tell you something, Abe. Max Linkheimer could miss a thousand buttons, and what is it? But with us, Abe, one piece of silk goods is more as a hundred dollars." "'S all right, Mawruss," Abe interrupted. "Max Linkheimer says we shouldn't be afraid. He says he trusts the young feller in the office with hundreds of dollars laying in the safe, and he ain't touched a cent so far. Furthermore, the young feller's got a wife and baby, Mawruss." |
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