Yekl

Excerpt from Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto

Say, Dzake, the presser broke in, John Sullivan is tzampz'on no longer, is he?

Oh, no Not always is it holiday Jake responded, with what he considered a Yankee jerk of his head. Why, don't you know? Jimmie Corbett leaeea' him, and Jimmie leaked Cholly Meetchel, too. You can deft/z you' boots/i Johnnie could not leak Chollie, decays/z he is a big Wafer, Chollie is, he pursued, his clean-shaven florid face beaming with enthusiasm for his subject, and with pride in the diminutive proper nouns he fiaunted. But Jimmie puna'z'sfiea' him. Didn't lze enoce bz'w out of sfiz'gfit He came near making a meat ball of him - with a chuckle. He tzetllea.' him in three rayna's. I knew a feller who had seen the fight.

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