"...when I was working part-time for the furrier, I went to the East Bronx. But I was supposed to go to the West Bronx so I walked across the Bronx because I had to save the carfare..."
"...and then we all lost our jobs before New Years..."
"...Poppy took Ruth to painting and paperhanging..."
"...Carl Greenbaum, he made baskets I wove the... the ..."
The handle, Dad?
"...no... the ... I wove...the straw, a dollar, a dollar fifty, I was ahead of the game..."
"...the baby, when they were in Virginia... the baby..."
Issac?
"...no, not that name...another name... he died at three, 'summer complaint' but I think it was dysentery... they went back to New York... had the girls, Ruth and Freda, but the girls didn't count... I came 1921... Ruth and Freda treated me like a doll... they called me Captain Belly Button Moishe A Regular Hersch...
Who's Hersch?
"...I guess a relative..."
"....when we moved to the lower east side it was the first time we didn't live in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood... now there was one of everyone on the street and the gangs..."
"...spring is here the grass is rizz I wonder where the birdies is..."
"I'll lay a drape under the trey of knockers for 10th Street and be on the scene wearing the green..."
What does that mean, Dad?
"I'll pawn my clothes for $10 and return with the money..."
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