“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…
“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…
“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…
“ When Mashah walked in the street in her everyday work dress that was cut from the same goods and bought from the same pushcart…
“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…
“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!…
