"The Fat of the Land"
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Anzia Yezierska
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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"The Fat of the Land" - Anzia Yezierska
The Fat of the Land
by Anzia Yezierska
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In an air-shaft so narrow that you could touch the next wall with your bare hands, Hanneh Breineh leaned out and knocked on her neighbor’s window.
Can you loan me your wash-boiler for the clothes?
she called.
Mrs. Pelz threw up the sash.
The boiler? What’s the matter with yours again? Didn’t you tell me you had it fixed already last week?
A black year on him, the robber, the way he fixed it! If you have no luck in this world, then it’s better not to live. There I spent out fifteen cents to stop up one hole, and it runs out another. How I ate out my gall bargaining with him he should let it down to fifteen cents! He wanted yet a quarter, the swindler. Gottuniu! My bitter heart on him for every penny he took from me for nothing!
You got to watch all those swindlers, or they’ll steal the whites out of your eyes,
admonished Mrs. Pelz. You should have tried out your boiler before you paid him. Wait a minute till I empty out my dirty clothes in a pillow-case; then I’ll hand it to you.
Mrs. Pelz returned with the boiler and tried to hand it across to Hanneh Breineh, but the soap-box refrigerator on the window-sill was in the way.
You got to come in for the boiler yourself,
said Mrs. Pelz.
Wait only till I tie my Sammy on to the high-chair he shouldn’t fall on me again. He’s so wild that ropes won’t hold him.
Hanneh Breineh tied the child in the chair, stuck a pacifier in his mouth, and went in to her neighbor. As she took the boiler Mrs. Pelz said:
Do you know Mrs. Melker ordered fifty pounds of chicken for her daughter’s wedding? And such grand chickens! Shining like gold! My heart melted in me just looking at the flowing fatness of those chickens.
Hanneh Breineh smacked her thin, dry lips, a hungry gleam in her sunken eyes.
Fifty pounds!
she gasped. "It