The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-23

dear, ArS. belkOVltcn, now MIS-
Esther scolds the old gentleman, too
Truth is truth, Mr.. Danziger, This
my husband on 8 nrst pleasure tri
he takes from his business ia twent,
five years. a man that all his life ha
had to work from dark until dark t
get up to where he is now, should los
four hundred and eighty dollars to
young man what everybody on tn
boat says Is full Of luck ap to nj
teeth, amt no little thing"
"But Mrs. Lefkovitch-"
ZACH Bertha"
Mama"
"And on top OF 1t all to tell hi
wife, until she hears 1t straight from
the other ladies, that 1t Is only fouI
dollars and eighty cents what he lost
l ask you, Mr.. Danziger. is 1t rightY'
"Ach new, Bertha, / didn't"
you did. Aaron. right down in oul
stateroom when you came In thai
night and | asked you. -Four dollar,
and eighty cents, Bertha you said
just like that. Right away, when you
ven to our bunk that night with
your pants pocket under the mattress,
I ought to have suspected"
But Bertha"
us that so nice, Mr.. D~anziger7 |
tell yen 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, 1 can tell you"
"Hama! 7"
"Ja, and yeul Amt yss said your
self, Esther. how at night when IL gets
prettiest for the young girls and the
young men to Sit ont under the moon
shine, how always when card time
comes you find yourself left by your
self? Tell mama. Esther. ai0't YOU
said nT'
"Ach now, Bertha, wait till we land
at Naples tomorrow and 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
a young man for you'll always say
could learn the whole world manners"
Come, Danziger, / play you for no
stakes, just a little game Of freeze
out, eh? No stakes, eh?"
But, papa, Mr.. Danziger and / were
going up on top deck this morning
and watch Madeira till we land"
Zach no, Esther, like a good girl
you stay and watch it by mama a
little, Ell? See, out there already how
and in half an hour we be up again,
eh, Danziger? A little freeze-out No
stakes, Bertha, no stakes"
Don't make out of me a fool,
Aaron; 1t only makes me madden"
"See, Danziger, what a ~henpecker of
a little wife l got"
MIR. Danziger placed a pat affection
ately between the older mans shoul-
der-blades.
your old gentleman here Is surely
a card, Mrs. L~efkovitch. Hope to die
If in the seventeen times I've crossed
up to him"
For you, Mr.. Danziger, two cards
l guess he is with four hundred and
eighty"
Mama I"
"See, Mrs. Lefkovitch, how your
daughter takes up for me-"
Come, Danziger! 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, Danzigerl"
"Aw, papa!"
Never mind, Miss Esther; when we
and I'm going TO take you riding up
the f%unicular at Funchal and show
you the scenery of your life. They're
nifty little islands, the Hadeiras. I've
been right through them clear to the
Janaries.'
Come, Danziger. and no stakes"
Now, Mrs. Lefkovitch, just yor
wait and see If he don't win the
right off the cards. Coming,
coming"
And they were off arm In arm down
he well-washed l~uIuriously wide
leck, past lines Of steamer chairs
oined together with an endless chain
If gossip, occupants tilted backward
Until the ,oles stood upright and the
mind reclined.
Left there and standing beside her
parent, Miss Lefkovitch
asst down upon her a glance that
with tears.
Honest, mama, you-you're Just
he limit
1.-THE limit ! am, am /, because a mix
4 a young man nobody knows who
is, can't come along and pull the
vol over M eyes like he can over
~ daughters and her papa's."
Hes one of the SWEETEST fellows on
his boat, that's what he is, If you
7ant to know 1t. Everybody knows
hat he knows all the swells Of Chi
ago, the Bambergers and all of them"
"Such talk don't go with me. So do
know all the swells of New York,
ne Felsenthals and Schimms, when /
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