[Illustration: "If a feller wants to make a success in business he should be a little up to date, ain't it?"]
ABE AND MAWRUSS
BEING FURTHER ADVENTURES OF POTASH AND PERLMUTTER
BY MONTAGUE GLASS
ILLUSTRATED BY J. J. GOULD AND MARTIN JUSTICE
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHAPTER PAGE
I. SYMPATHY 3 II. THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS 33 III. DEAD MEN'S SHOES 66 IV. THE RAINCOAT KING 116 V. A RETURN TO ARCADY 149 VI. A PRESENT FOR MR. GEIGERMANN 191 VII. BROTHERS ALL 236 VIII. R. S. V. P. 281 IX. FIRING MISS COHEN 294 X. AUX ITALIENS 310 XI. MAN PROPOSES 342
ILLUSTRATIONS
"If a feller wants to make a success in business he should be a little up to date, ain't it?" Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
"If he would stole it he would of gave it to me, lady" 16
"Do you know anything about them old violins?" 204
"Mr. Potash," the visitor began, "every merchant is at times confronted with a situation which demands a few appropriate remarks" 254
CHAPTER ONE
SYMPATHY
"I come down on the subway with Max Linkheimer this morning, Mawruss," Abe Potash said to his partner, Morris Perlmutter, as they sat in the showroom one hot July morning. "That feller is a regular philantropist."
"I bet yer," Morris replied. "He would talk a tin ear on to you if you only give him a chance. Leon Sammet too, Abe, I assure you. I seen Leon in the Harlem Winter Garden last night, and the goods he sold while he was talking to me and Barney Gans, Abe, in two seasons we don't do such a business. Yes, Abe; Leon Sammet is just such another one of them fellers like Max Linkheimer."
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Abe and Mawruss by Montague Glass
- 2: A philantropist ain't a schmooser
- 3: This is your idee Jake leaves us
- 4: If Max Linkheimer don't trust nobody
- 5: Abe transfixed his partner with a malevolent glare
- 6: Nathan Schenkmann nodded and Mrs
- 7: Schenkmann exchanged embarrassed looks and hung their heads
- 8: Schenkmann is inclined to be extravagant
- 9: Wouldn't Linkheimer give a recommendation
- 10: I leave that to suckers like Max Linkheimer
- 11: Linkheimer smiled with satisfaction
- 12: He looked at Linkheimer and then at Morris
- 13: Handing the bill to Linkheimer
- 14: Griesman with an elaborate start
- 15: I think I seen you in a law office oncet
- 16: Sammet Brothers are sending him to Paris this year too
- 17: I crossed the water just oncet
- 18: Perlmutter was just talking about you to day
- 19: Morris handed her the dress and she examined it carefully
- 20: On the same ship with Moe Griesman
- 21: Leon shouted as Moe sat down next to him
- 22: Tunics oder chiffon overskirts
- 23: Moe Griesman cried indignantly
- 24: Moe Griesman developed day by day
- 25: While Moe gaped his astonishment
- 26: As Moe disappeared toward the street
- 27: The Hamsuckett Mills don't sell their output in Paris
- 28: The way Aaron Kronberg hates Alex Kronberg
- 29: Alex Kronberg wouldn't take it so particular
- 30: Here it is in black on white 'Alex Kronberg
- 31: Uncle Mosha lingered to take the morning air
- 32: Uncle Mosha broke in impatiently
- 33: Did Mosha Kronberg telephone that himself
- 34: Gershon pressed a handkerchief to his eyes
- 35: Aaron Kronberg hastened to say
- 36: Uncle Mosha smiled blandly at his nephew
- 37: Uncle Mosha shrugged once more
- 38: He would soon got the biggest store in Bridgetown
- 39: Uncle Mosha mumbled as he paused to light up
- 40: For Uncle Mosha remained unmoved
- 41: Was turned over to Mosha Kronberg
- 42: Alex had accompanied Max Gershon to Bridgetown
- 43: Uncle Mosha asked with asperity
- 44: She was married to Sam Gershon
- 45: Gershon died on account of that boy
- 46: Mosha Kronberg we own this here house together
- 47: Uncle Mosha and Max will keep the house
- 48: Uncle Mosha has got a good home
- 49: 'Old man Zudosky given you a raise
- 50: Shapolnik is leaving us on Saturday
- 51: But afterward he turned to Shapolnik with a scowl
- 52: In Russland Shapolnik is all right
- 53: Crooked Shapolnik ain't exactly
- 54: And Abe turned to view the perspiring features of Max Koblin
- 55: Sidney shook his head sullenly
- 56: Auction pinocle is nothing to me
- 57: Katzberg shrugged his shoulders and returned to his pressing
- 58: Drawn countenance of the Raincoat King
- 59: But Max misconstrued his reticence
- 60: Max Koblin wants to talk to you
- 61: As they reached the sidewalk Abe paused
- 62: Zwieback and coffee is good enough for me
- 63: Most of the women up in Cyprus thinks that way too
- 64: Max Kirschner ain't no ordinary drummer
- 65: We could get Max Kirschner and Max Kirschner
- 66: And I hope to see Sol Klinger there
- 67: Which Morris shook out and examined critically
- 68: A sanatorium is no place for a drummer to find a job
- 69: We could run that feller from Sarahcuse out of town
- 70: But both Kleiman and Elenbogen were absent
- 71: I was born and raised in a one horse town upstate
- 72: Louis Kleiman called from his office
- 73: How do you know he went over to Sammet Brothers
- 74: There are worse places than Cyprus
- 75: Who glanced inquiringly at Max Kirschner
- 76: Duryea took the proffered hand gingerly
- 77: Max coloured and smiled in an embarrassed fashion
- 78: Moe Griesman had just bought out Sam Green's competitors
- 79: Is the Sarahcuse store included too
- 80: But Geigermann only laughs at me
- 81: You mean that feller Strauss of Klipmann
- 82: Louis Shellak cried impatiently
- 83: Shellak a cloak and suit house oder a theayter
- 84: A shello is a fiddle which you play it with your knees
- 85: Followed by the crestfallen Shellak
- 86: For which Abe gave Shellak his personal check
- 87: Because I am telling you it was a genu ine Amati
- 88: The purchaser is Felix Geigermann
- 89: Abe cried Mandelberger Brothers Company
- 90: Shellak didn't know it for one
- 91: But you know Mawruss Perlmutter
- 92: But there are Amatis and Amatis
- 93: Geigermann could keep the fiddle und fertig
- 94: Geigermann shows the feller the fiddle
- 95: Louis licked his dry lips before making any reply
- 96: Geigermann went out for a minute
- 97: I will go downtown and pick 'em out
- 98: Ladislaw Wcelak examined the printed slip and he
- 99: When I come over from Russland
- 100: That's what you said about that feller Harkavy
- 101: That feller Harkavy was a wonder too
- 102: Geigermann knows a good garment when he sees it
- 103: I was talking about the other feller
- 104: Why shouldn't he help Kovalenko
- 105: Steuermann would be up here at five o'clock
- 106: Abe yelled to the shipping clerk
- 107: The canvasser said as he puffed at his cigar
- 108: He said and Morris glared at Abe
- 109: Morris turned and stared icily at Kleiman
- 110: Harkavy replied a very good job
- 111: Harkavy pondered the question for some minutes
- 112: Will it bring back your son to you if Tzwee Kovalenko dies
- 113: Pincus Levin shuffled his feet uneasily
- 114: Abe looked helplessly at Morris and turned to Pincus Levin
- 115: Harkavy nodded and sipped some water
- 116: Feldman and Steuermann at one side of a huge table
- 117: Munjoy and opposing counsel cried in unison
- 118: This is only the tenth of the month
- 119: You wouldn't got no bumbum dish
- 120: I suppose you sent that present to Hyman Maimin
- 121: The Advance Credit Clothing Company Marcus Bramson
- 122: Perlmutter bought for Hyman Maimin's wedding present
- 123: The Hamsuckett people must be wrong
- 124: City salesman for the Hamsuckett Mills Goldner Plotkin
- 125: Feinsilver listened with parted lips
- 126: A bright young feller like Ike Feinsilver don't get stuck
- 127: Congradulate Ike Feinsilver and Beckie Cohen
- 128: With the possible exception of Max Cohen
- 129: Which he is just married a daughter of Maisener Finkman
- 130: The woman ain't from Russland at all
- 131: But when you ain't got a designer
- 132: Where do you buy such good Brustdeckel
- 133: Senft knew his business he never would got rid of him at all
- 134: Simonetti looked amazedly at Baskof
- 135: Composing the firm of Potash Perlmutter
- 136: Like I am seeing it last week a show by the name Paliatzki
- 137: Lipschutzky ain't much of a name for a banker neither
- 138: Me and Sholy and Doctor Eichendorfer and Baskof
- 139: A couple of hundred dollars bonus
- 140: Enrico sighed even more deeply
- 141: There he found Enrico Simonetti seated on a stool
- 142: And a bonus of two hundred dollars
- 143: And you ought to seen Leon Sammet the way he acted
- 144: Gladstein when it comes to looks
- 145: Gladstein attracts the clothing trade and B
- 146: Gurin passed his hand through his wavy brown hair
- 147: My father ain't a Schnorrer neither
- 148: Once more Gurin shook his head
- 149: Gurin stopped and gasped for breath
- 150: We could stand a couple opticians in this concern
- 151: Do you got maybe some sets from nutpicks
- 152: That's a perculater and it cost me
- 153: Gladstein's present got to do with Gurin
- 154: He handed the advertisement to Gurin
- 155: The junior partner of Sammet Brothers
- 156: And when she marries Gladstein
- 157: Made by him on a congratulatory visit to Bridgetown
- 158: But Asimof figures differencely