![]() ![]() I never look at him but what he’s chewing.’ ‘If I do nothing else, I’m going to feed the children.’ ‘Don’t expect me to stint on the stomach,’ my mother said with determination. I haven’t even started on the bigger things yet, such as meat.’ Leather mittens for Bentchka cost me thirty cents. Forty cents to the tinsmith for relining my copper pot. ‘I’m going to buy a pair of clippers and do it myself,’ Pa said. Then there was fifty cents to have the boys’ hair cut.’ Do you want to look at it? The child was in pain. ‘There was nothing left of it but the walls. ![]() I was ashamed to show my face to Dr Zadkin.’ And after he was done, I waited for him downstairs. I sent him up alone and told him to say it was all he had. ‘Yes, it’s usually a dollar an extraction. I was shaken, too, and eager to escape condemnation. I had taken a piece of Ma’s checkered stationery and placed the figures carefully within the tiny boxes. She must have believed she had done something wrong. ‘Seventy-five cents to the milkman,’ said Ma, earnest and frightened. ‘Take a pencil and write these things down. ![]() ‘How could you! Haven’t you any sense? And what did you do with the rest? Joshua,’ he said, turning to me furiously. For two months now I’ve been coming home the long way around. We’ve owed money to Herskovitz for I don’t know how long.’ ‘Again no money? But I gave you twelve dollars at the beginning of the week. ‘G ott meiner,’ said my father to my mother. ![]()
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