Garbov even paid

“Is that you just, Simkin? The place have you ever been all these years? How good it’s to see outdated associates!”

“Properly,” mentioned Simkin, “can’t we patronize your tenant whereas we speak?”

So the outdated associates drank chilly soda-water at Levy’s stand. They joyously reminisced over the “inexperienced days” in New York. And to prime issues off, Garbov even paid for the soda-water which the passing policeman drank.

THE PRISONER

He stands behind iron bars, dressed like the opposite prisoners in overalls of blue denim. His spouse stands on the opposite aspect of the bars with their three kids, starting from ten to fifteen years of age.

“The president of our shul and a few members, good associates of yours, Bender and Minsky, needed to name on you,” she says, “however I wouldn’t allow them to. It’s solely ten extra days till you can be residence once more, a free man.”

He’s silent.

“What?” she says in amazement. “They’ve monkeyed together with your beard?”

“They needed to chop off my beard fully,” he replies in a subdued voice, “however I pleaded with them to solely reduce off half.”

The three kids stand there half frightened, half awed by the thought of their father being a prisoner.

“Time’s up!” cries the guard.

The prisoner disappears down the lengthy hall. She and the youngsters stay standing of their locations.

“Why is your husband in jail?” asks a lady who has come to name on her personal husband.

“I don’t perceive it myself. All of it occurred so fast. My husband and I had a bit quarrel. Properly, he forgot himself and hit me. You recognize such issues occur. However we might have made up and all would have been effectively once more, if our neighbor, Mrs. Rosenberg, hadn’t blended in. Are you able to think about, she will get busy, and calls up a type of swell girls, who comes over with a policeman! They arrest my husband and now he’s in jail for thirty

days. Woe to me that my kids ought to have a felony for a father. Did you ever hear of such a factor?”

“Tut-tut-tut,” the opposite girl remarks by means of comfort. “The boys deserve all of it. However I did higher than that. I did the hitting, and as an alternative of thirty days my husband received two months. It’s all proper, allow them to have a relaxation.”

She begins residence with the youngsters, mumbling to her-self, “Ten extra days, ten extra days.”