Morris blushed.

“It was delivered yesterday, Abe,” he replied.  “But the fact is, Abe, I kinder changed my mind about that oitermobile.  With oitermobiles I am a new beginner already, so I figure it out this way.  Why should I go to work and try experiments with a high price car like that Pfingst car?  Ain’t it?  Now, you take a feller like Fixman who is already an expert, y’understand, and that’s something else again.  Fixman tried out the car last night, Abe, and he thinks it’s an elegant car.  So I made an arrangement with him that he should pay me fifteen hundred dollars cash and I would swap the Pfingst car for a 1907 model, Appalachian runabout.  That’s a fine oitermobile, Abe, that Appalachian runabout.  In the first place, it’s got a detachable tonneau and holds just as many people as the Pfingst car already, only it ain’t so complicated.  Instead of a six cylinder engine, Abe, it’s only got a two cylinder engine.”

“Two is enough for a start, Mawruss,” Abe commented.

“Sure,” Morris agreed, “and then again instead of a double chain drive its only got a single chain drive, y’understand.”

Abe nodded.  To him planetary and selective transmission were even as conic sections.

“Also it’s got dry battery ignition, Abe,” Morris concluded triumphantly, “instead of one of them—­now—­magneto arrangements, which I ain’t got no confidence in at all.”

Abe nodded again.

“I never had no confidence in dagoes neither,” he said.  “Fellers which couldn’t speak the English language properly, y’understand, is bound to do you sooner or later.”

“So Fixman and me goes around last night to see a feller what lives out in Johnsonhurst by the name Eleazer Levy which Fixman got it for a lawyer, and we drew a bill of sale then and there, Abe, and Fixman give me a check for fifteen hundred dollars on the Kosciusko Bank.”

“Was it certified?” Abe asked.

“Well, it wasn’t,” Morris replied, “but I stopped off at the Kosciusko Bank this morning and——­”

“You done right, Mawruss,” Abe interrupted.  “The first thing you know Fixman would claim that the oitermobile ain’t the same shade of red like the sample, Mawruss, and stops the check.”

“Fixman ain’t that kind, Abe,” Morris retorted.  “The only reason I certified the check was that I happened to be in the neighborhood of the bank, because when you are at the Bridge, Abe, all you got to do is to take a Third Avenue car up Park Row to the Bowery and transfer to Grand Street.  Then you ride over ten blocks and get out at Clinton Street, y’understand, and walk four blocks over.  So long as it’s so convenient, Abe, I just stopped in and got it certified.”

“A little journey like that I would think convenient, too, if I would got to travel to Johnsonhurst every day, Mawruss,” Abe commented, “and anyhow, Mawruss, in a swap one of the fellers is always got an idee he’s stuck.”