Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass
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"Might Felix Geigermann would go down and see him, Mawruss," he
suggested finally. "It wouldn't do no harm we should ring him up anyhow." "Go as far as you like, Abe," Morris said, and Abe started immediately for the telephone. "I spoke to Felix, Mawruss," he announced a few minutes later, "and Felix said he would go right down and see him. He ain't so stuck on paying Feldman a couple hundred dollars neither." Morris snorted indignantly. "If you was going to be charitable, Abe," he said, "why don't you be a sport? We could easy stand a couple hundred dollars." "That's all right, Mawruss," Abe declared. "Business is business and charity is charity, y'understand; but even in charity, Mawruss, it don't do no harm to keep the expenses down." Two hours afterward Felix Geigermann entered the showroom, his face glistening with perspiration. "Well, boys," he almost shouted, "I seen him, and he says he would call in here on his way uptown." "Who would call in?" Morris asked. "Moses M. Steuermann," Felix replied. "It was the Tschaikovsky Fourth that fixed him, Mawruss. I told him that young feller carries round with |
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