Publisher's Synopsis
"What do you mean bum round our shop?" Philip demanded. He was asking about his brother-in-law, who'd just written, asking for money. "In the first place, Polatkin, I ain't said I am going to send him money, y'understand; and, in the second place, if I want to send the feller money to come over here, understand me, that's my business. Furthermore, when you are coming to call my brother-in-law a loafer and a bum, Polatkin, you don't know what you are talking about. His Grossvater, olav hasholem, was the great Harkavy Rav, Jochannon Borrochson."
The great Harkavy Rav, Jochannon Borrochson. Kind of says it all, doesn't it?
