me die in peace? Thy girls think more of English story books and
lessons than of _Yiddishkeit_, and the boys run out under the naked sky
with bare heads and are loth to wash their hands before meals, and they
do not come home in the dinner hour for fear they should have to say the
afternoon prayer. Laugh at me, Moses, as thou wilt, but, old as I am, I
have eyes, and not two blotches
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of clay, in my sockets. Thou seest not
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thy family is going to destruction. Oh, the
abominations!" Thus warned and put on his mettle, Moses would keep a
keen look-out on his hopeful family for the next day, and the seed
which the grandmother had sown came up in black and blue bruises or, the
family anatomy, especially on that portion of it which belonged to
Solomon. For Moses's
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crumbling trousers were buckled with a stout strap, and
Solomon was a young rogue who did his best to dodge the Almighty, and
had never heard of Lowell's warning, You've gut to git up
airly,Ef you want to take in God. Even if he had heard of it,
he would probably have retorted that he usually got up early enough to
take in his father, who was the more immediately terrible of the two.
Nevertheless, Solomon learned many lessons at his father's knee, or
rather, across it. In earlier days Solomon had had a number of
confidential transactions with his father's God, making bargains with
Him according to his childish sense of equity. If, for instance, God
would ensure his doing his sums correctly, so that he should be neither
caned nor "kept in," he would say his morning prayers without skipping
the aggravating _Longe Verachum_, which bulked so largely on Mondays and
Thursdays; otherwise he could not be bothered. By the terms of the
contract Solomon threw all the initiative on the Deity, and whenever
the Deity undertook his share of
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the contract, Solomon honorably fulfilled his. Thus was his
faith in Providence never shaken like that of some boys, who expect the
Deity to follow their lead. Still, by declining to praise his Maker at
extraordinary length, except in acknowledgment of services rendered,
Solomon gave early evidence of his failure to inherit his father's
business incapacity. On days when things at the school went well,
no one gabbled through the weary Prayer-book more conscientiously than
he; he said all the things in large type and all the funny little bits
in small type, and even some passages without vowels. Nay, he included
the very preface, and was lured on and coaxed on and enticed by his
father to recite the appendices, which shot up one after the other on
the devotional horizon like the
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endless-seeming terraces of a deceptive ascent; just another
little bit, and now that little bit, and just that last bit, and one
more very last little bit. It was like the infinite inclusiveness of a
Chinese sphere, or the farewell performances of a distinguished
singer. For the rest, Solomon was a _Chine-ponim_, or droll, having
that inextinguishable sense of humor which has made the saints of the
Jewish
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