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Chapter 1. Potash And Perlmutter Discuss The Czar Business
_ CHAPTER I. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THE CZAR BUSINESS
Like the human-hair business and the green-goods business it is not what it used to be.
"Yes, Abe," Morris Perlmutter said to his partner, Abe Potash, as they sat in their office one morning in September, "the English language is practically a brand-new article since the time when I used to went to night school. In them days when a feller says he is feeling like a king, it meant that he was feeling like a king,
aber to-day yet, if a feller says he feels like a king it means that he‘s got stomach and domestic trouble and that he don‘t know where the money is coming from to pay his next week‘s laundry bill. Czars is the same way, too. Former times when you called a feller a regular czar you meant he was a regular czar,
aber nowadays if you say somebody is a regular czar it means that the poor feller couldn‘t call his so
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