Since I brought the subject up, how many here remember the tales about
Mendel? How the bedbugs kept the unfortunate guests up all night. How
Gittel, the chambermaid, was "available" for four kopeks in the summer and
two kopeks in the winter? How Mendel's wife, Malke, went to the market
late
on Thursday to buy the leftover and spoiled fruit and vegetables? And how
Heshey, the butcher, sometimes "accidentally" bought a dead cow from a
Gentile farmer instead of one the schochet slaughtered?
Mendel's Inn was rated Four Magen Davids in the Traveler's Machberet
published by that scoundrel who called himself Rabbi Shmuel but who was
really an embezzler on the run from the Romanian police.
Leon
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