The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-03-02

Esther scOlds the old gentleman, too"
Truth is truth. Mr.. DanZiger. That
my husband on a first pleasure trip
he takes from his business in twenty
five years, a man that all his life has
had TO work from dark until dark to
get up TO where he is now, should lose
four hundred and eighty dollars TO a
young man what everybody on the
boat says is full of luck up to his
teeth, amt no little thing"
But Mrs. Lefkovitch-"
Zach Bertha"
"Mama-"
"And on top of it all to tell his
wife. until she hears it straight from
the other ladies', that it is only four
dollars and eighty cents what he lost
ask you, Mr.. Danziger, is it right?"
Zach now, Bertha, l didn't"
you did, Aaron, right down in our
staterOom when you came in that
night and I asked you. -Four dollars
and eighty cents, Bertha you said.
just like that. Right away, when you
went TO your bunk that night with
your pants pocket under the mattress,
ought to have suspected"
But Bertha"
rs that so nice, Mr.. Danziger?
tell you for a young man what pre-
tends he likes so much to be with my
daughter, that he should play cards
every night with her papa and win
away like that-it-it makes me feel
bad enough, l can tell you"
Mama !"
ia. and you! Amt you said your
self, Esther, how at night when it gets
prettiest for the young girls and the
young men to sit out under the moon
shine, how always when card time
comes you find yourself left by your
self? Tell mama, Esther, amt you
said it,"
Zach now, Bertha, wait till we land
at Naples tomorrow and l get you
an Eyetalian policeman to tell your
troubles to-"
I'D like to see once Abe Katz do to
you tricks like that, Esther. There's
young man for you'll always say
could learn the whole world manners
Come, Danziger, 1 play you for no
stakes, just a little game of freeze
out, Ell? No stakes, eh?'
But, papa, Mr.. DanZiger and were
going up on top deck this morning
and watch Madeira till we land"
"Ach no, Esther, like a good girl
you stay and watch it by mama
little, eh? See, out there already how
big the land gets. Stay by mama
and in half an hour we be up again,
Ell, Danziger? A little freeze-out! No
stakes, Bertha, no stakes :"
Don't make out of me a fool,
Aaron; it only makes me madden"
"See, Danziger, what a ,henpecker of
little wife l got"
Mr.. Danziger placed a pat affection
ately between the older mans shout
der-blades.
Your old gentleman here is surely
a card, Mrs. Lefkoyitch. Hope to die
if in the seventeen times I've crossed
I've struck a character that can match
up to him"
For you, Mr. Danziger, two cards
l guess he is with four hundred and
eighty"
Mama! :"
See, Mrs. Lefkovitch, how your
daughter takes up for me-"
Come, Danzigerl Esther, you stay
here by mama a little
Don't be SO considerate of me all
of a sudden, Aaron. Enough by my
self I've sat on this boat"
Come, Danziger"
cav, papa!'
Never mind, Miss Esther; when we
land I'm going to take you riding up
the funicular at Funchal and show
you the scenery of your life They're
nifty little islands, the Madeiras. I've
been right through them clear to the
Canaries."
Come, Danziger, and no stakes"
Now, Mrs. Lefkovitch, just you
wait and see if he don't win the
spades right off the cards. Coming
LefkOvitch, coming"
And they were off arm in arm down
the well-washed luxuriously wide
deck, past lines Of steamer chairs
joined together with an endless chain
of gossip, occupants tilted backward
until the sOles stood upright and the
mind reclined.
Left there and standing beside her
recumbent parent, Miss Lefkovltch
cast down upon her a glance that
wavered with tears.
Honest mama, yOu-you're just
the limit"
THE limit ! am, am l, because a nix
of young man nobody knows who
he is, can't come along and pull the
wool over my eyes like he can over
my daughters and her papa's."
Hes one of the SWEETEST fellows on
this boat, that's what he is, if you
want to know it. Everybody knows
that he knows all the swells of Chi
cagO, the Bambergers and all of them"
"Such talk don't go with me. So do
know all the swells of New York,
the Felsenthals and Schimms, when
see them ride on Fifth avenue in their
automobiles and see in the newspa-
pers the Van Rippens pictures"
"You and your old fogy ideas don't