XXIV
POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS SOCIETY—NEW YORK, HUMAN, AND AMERICAN
"I seen Max Feinrubin in the Subway this morning," Abe Potash said to his partner, Morris Perlmutter. "He broke two fingers on his left hand last week."
"Why don't he let the shipping-clerk do up the packing-cases?" Morris commented.
"He didn't break his hand on no packing-case," Abe said.
"Well, what did he break it on, then?" Morris asked.
"The shipping-clerk," Abe replied, "which the feller said that this war is a war over property, and every nation that is in it is just as bad as Germany, so Feinrubin asked him did he claim that the United States was just as bad as Germany and he said 'Yes,' and afterward he said that Feinrubin would hear from him later through a lawyer."
"And that is how Feinrubin broke his two fingers," Morris said.
"Well, as a matter of fact, up to that point Feinrubin had only broke one finger, Mawruss," Abe said, "but just before the shipping-clerk went out of the door he said that President Wilson was an enemy to Society, so Feinrubin broke the other finger."