er our noses, for why ain't you satisfied?"

"For myself, Julius, believe me it's too good, but for Poil we--"

"Look all what you can see right here from our porch! Look there through
the trees at the river; right in front of our eyes it bends for us.
Look what a street we live on. We should worry it ain't in the booming
part. Quiet like a temple, with trees on it older as you and me
together."

"The caterpillars is bad this year, Julius; trees ain't so cheap,
neither. In the city such worries they ain't got."

"For what with a place like this, Becky, with running water and--"

"It's Poil, Julius. Not a thing a beau-ti-fool girl like Poil has out
here."

"Nonsense. It's a sin she should want a better place as this. Ain't she
got a plush parlor and a piano and--"

"It's like Izzy says, Julius: there's too many fine goils in the city
for the boys to come out here on a forty-five-minute ride. What boys has
she got out here, Mike Donnely and--"

"_Ach!_"

"That's what we need; just something like that should happen to us. But,
believe me, it's happened before when a girl ain't got no better to pick
from. How I worry about it you should know."

"Becky, with even such talk you make me sick."

"Mark my word, it's happened before, Julius! That's why I say, Julius, a
few months in the city this winter and she could meet the right young
man. Take a boy like Max Teitlebaum. Yourself you said how grand and
steady he is. Twice with Izzy he's been out here, and not once his eyes
off Poil did he take."

"Teitlebaum, with a store twice so big as ours on Sixth Avenue, don't
need to look for us--twice they can buy and sell us."

"Is--that--so! To me that makes not one difference. Put Poil in the
city, where it don't take an hour to get to be, and, _ach_, almost
anything could happen! Not once did he take his eyes off her--such a
grand, quiet boy, too."

"When a young man's got thoughts, forty-five minutes' street-car ride
don't keep him away."

"Nonsense! I always say I never feel hungry till I see in front of me a
good meal. If I have to get dressed and go out and market for it I don't
want it. It's the same with marriage. You got to work up in the young
man the appetite. What they don't see they don't get hungry for. They
got to get eyes bigger as their stomachs first."

"Such talk makes me sick. Suppose she don't get married, ain't she got a
good home and--"

"An old maid you want yet! A beau-ti-fool goil like o