"'VAT MORE PROOF DO YOU VANT?'"
"Much greater proof," replied Manasseh. "I ought to have some instance of your powers. The only time I have seen you try to schnorr you failed."
"Me! ven?" exclaimed Yankelé indignantly.
"Why, this very night. When you asked young Weinstein for his dead father's clothes!"
"But he had already given them away!" protested the Pole.
"What of that? If anyone had given away my clothes, I should have demanded compensation. You must really be above rebuffs of that kind, Yankelé, if you are to be my son-in-law. No, no, I remember the dictum of the Sages: 'To give your daughter to an uncultured man is like throwing her bound to a lion.'"
"But you have also seen me schnorr mid success," remonstrated the suitor.
"Never!" protested Manasseh vehemently.
"Often!"