"I'se not going to school!" he said suddenly and firmly.
"Feivele, what do you mean?"
"I'se not going!"
"What's the matter with you? Why aren't you going?"
"Dat's why!"
But Channah had not come unprepared for such an emergency. Mrs. Massel had anticipated it with a stick-jaw of Moishele's best. She held it towards the child and made provocative labial noises.
"Aren't you going now?"
"No!" he said a little more doubtfully.
She had another weapon in the armoury.
"Tatte will give you such a pitch-patch!" she said threateningly—pitch-patch being a form of castigation among all nations as constant in method as it is variable in name.