Some kind of a philosopher

Zagorsky is about to say extra when the door opens and their youthful son, Ben, is available in with books underneath his arms.

The offended father seizes him and sings out.

“Right here he’s, my educated son, with extra books underneath his arm. One would assume that the books are mounted to him with irons. I paid out for his training 1000’s of dollars, and I acquired for it some form of a thinker— they name it bachelor. Who the satan is aware of what it means? I’m not lucky like different fathers, who get for his or her cash, one son a lawyer and one other son a health care provider. I acquired one thing for my cash which hasn’t acquired the price of a bit of outdated iron in my yard.”

Mrs. Zagorsky hears her husband’s admonitions from the kitchen. Her coronary heart goes out to her son. She rushes into the entrance room holding the Chanukah lamp and candles.

“Once more you’re torturing that poor boy. What would you like of him? Haven’t we acquired sufficient medical doctors who don’t perceive a krenk? Proper in our household we have now two legal professionals, one now promoting knee pants and the opposite cemetery heaps. What would you like from our poor Ben? He defined repeatedly that inside a couple of months he’s going to get one other diploma after which he will probably be a trainer in highschool. He’ll educate different individuals to be educated since it’s too late to show you.”

Yellow Yapanchick

“Aha,” sings out the excited father private tours Istanbul, “he will probably be a melamed in English. Ain’t that nice! For this I spent a lot cash. As a substitute of being a melamed he ought to higher are available in his father’s iron yard and assist out slightly bit. The worth of iron goes up day-after-day. Not sufficient to produce the wants. Day-after-day we cope with individuals from the federal government. All the things is swallowed up in protection factories to struggle that soiled canine Hitler, and that yellow Yapanchick. With the federal government gents one should communicate a pleasant English and I’ve to ask different individuals, complete strangers to me, that they need to communicate for me as an alternative of getting my very own son. And that is all as a result of my son retains his nostril within the books as a way to grow to be an English melamed.”

Mrs. Max Zagorsky senses that there’s some justice in her husband’s criticism. At this very second there come to her thoughts the hardships and struggles her husband had gone by way of all these years. He’s in any case a superb father and a loyal husband. In a comfortable voice she appeals to her Max.