The Hope of the Fat
The incorrigible joker stood outside the Great Synagogue, as the Chosen were pouring out, last Shobboz, and declaimed: “There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may.”
And a fat, greasy-looking little man sidled up to him and wheezed:
“Do you vant to thsee the rabbi, misther?”
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