TOO YOUNG
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“Say, Isaacstein, don’t you vant to git married?”
“For vy shall I hitch me fast mit a wife?”
“Well, here’s an unusually good chance, a clean snap if you look sharp. You know Levy the banker? Well, he has three daughters, the youngest is eighteen years old, the next twenty-five and the next thirty. I have just learned that he will give $10,000 to the man that marries the youngest, $15,000 to the man that marries the next one, and $20,000 with the oldest. Why don’t you sail in, old man?”
“Dey are all too young fer me. I vill vait till dey get older. I vant one about fifty.”