“Suddenly, it grew dark before our eyes.The collector lady from the landlord!We did not hear her till she banged open the door. Her hard eyes glared at Father “My rent!”she cried,waving her thick diamond finge […]
“I am going to hear the free music in the park tonight,”She laughed to herself, with the pleasure before her,”and these pink roses on my hat to match out my pink calico will make me look just like the pictu […]
“Louder than all the pushcart peddlers, louder than all the hollering noises of bargaining and selling,I cried out my herring with all the burning fire of my ten old years. So loud was my yelling, for my little s […]
“ When Mashah walked in the street in her everyday work dress that was cut from the same goods and bought from the same pushcart like the rest of us it looked different on her.Her clothes were always so new and f […]
“Mammeh!” I begged. “Let me only go out to peddle with something. I got to bring in money if no one is working. “Woe is me!” Mother cried. “How can I stand it? An empty head on one side and craziness on the othe […]
“On the corner of the most crowded part of Hester Street I stood myself with my pail of herring.“Herring! Herring! A bargain in the world! Pick them out yourself. Two cents apiece.” My voice was like dynam […]
