The learned say that Passover was a Spring festival even before it was associated with the Redemption from Egypt, but there is not much Nature to worship in the Ghetto1 and the historical elements of the Festival swamp all the others. Passover still remains2 the most picturesque3 of the "Three Festivals" with its entire transmogrification of things culinary, its thorough taboo4 of leaven5. The audacious archaeologist of the thirtieth century may trace back the origin of the festival to the Spring Cleaning, the annual revel6 of the English housewife, for it is now that the Ghetto whitewashes7 itself and scrubs itself and paints itself and pranks8 itself and purifies its pans in a baptism of fire. Now, too, the publican gets unto himself a white sheet and suspends it at his door and proclaims that he sells _Kosher rum_ by permission of the Chief Rabbi. Now the confectioner exchanges his "stuffed monkeys," and his bolas and his jam-puffs, and his cheese-cakes for unleavened "palavas," and worsted balls and almond cakes. Time was when the Passover dietary was restricted to fruit and meat and vegetables, but year by year the circle is expanding, and it should not be beyond the reach of ingenuity9 to make bread itself Passoverian. It is now that the pious10 shopkeeper whose store is tainted11 with leaven sells his business to a friendly Christian12, buying it back at the conclusion of the festival. Now the Shalotten _Shammos_ is busy from morning to night filling up charity-forms, artistically13 multiplying the poor man's children and dividing his rooms. Now is holocaust14 made of a people's bread-crumbs, and now is the national salutation changed to "How do the _Motsos_ agree with you?" half of the race growing facetious15, and the other half finical over the spotted16 Passover cakes.
It was on the evening preceding the opening of Passover that Esther Ansell set forth17 to purchase a shilling's worth of fish in Petticoat Lane, involuntarily storing up in her mind vivid impressions of the bustling18 scene. It is one of the compensations of poverty that it allows no time for mourning. Daily duty is the poor man's nepenthe.
Esther and her father were the only two members of the family upon whom the death of Benjamin made a deep impression. He had been so long away from home that he was the merest shadow to the rest. But Moses bore the loss with resignation, his emotions discharging themselves in the daily _Kaddish_. Blent with his personal grief was a sorrow for the commentaries lost to Hebrew literature by his boy's premature20 transference to Paradise. Esther's grief was more bitter and defiant21. All the children were delicate, but it was the first time death had taken one. The meaningless tragedy of Benjamin's end shook the child's soul to its depths. Poor lad! How horrible to be lying cold and ghastly beneath the winter snow! What had been the use of all his long prepay rations22 to write great novels? The name of Ansell would now become ingloriously extinct. She wondered whether _Our Own_ would collapse23 and secretly felt it must. And then what of the hopes of worldly wealth she had built on Benjamin's genius? Alas24! the emancipation25 of the Ansells from the yoke26 of poverty was clearly postponed27. To her and her alone must the family now look for deliverance. Well, she would take up the mantle28 of the dead boy, and fill it as best she might. She clenched29 her little hands in iron determination. Moses Ansell knew nothing either of her doubts or her ambitions. Work was still plentiful30 three days a week, and he was unconscious he was not supporting his family in comparative affluence31. But even with Esther the incessant32 grind of school-life and quasi-motherhood speedily rubbed away the sharper edges of sorrow, though the custom prohibiting obvious pleasures during the year of mourning went in no danger of transgression33, for poor little Esther gadded34 neither to children's balls nor to theatres. Her thoughts were full of the prospects35 of piscine bargains, as she pushed her way through a crowd so closely wedged, and lit up by such a flare36 of gas from the shops and such streamers of flame from the barrows that the cold wind of early April lost its sting.
Two opposing currents of heavy-laden pedestrians37 were endeavoring in their progress to occupy the same strip of pavement at the same moment, and the laws of space kept them blocked till they yielded to its remorseless conditions. Rich and poor elbowed one another, ladies in satins and furs were jammed against wretched looking foreign women with their heads swathed in dirty handkerchiefs; rough, red-faced English betting men struggled good-humoredly with their greasy38 kindred from over the North Sea; and a sprinkling of Christian yokels39 surveyed the Jewish hucksters and chapmen with amused superiority.
For this was the night of nights, when the purchases were made for the festival, and great ladies of the West, leaving behind their daughters who played the piano and had a subscription40 at Mudie's, came down again to the beloved Lane to throw off the veneer41 of refinement42, and plunge43 gloveless hands in barrels where pickled cucumbers weltered in their own "_russell_," and to pick fat juicy olives from the rich-heaped tubs. Ah, me! what tragic44 comedy lay behind the transient happiness of these sensuous45 faces, laughing and munching46 with the shamelessness of school-girls! For to-night they need not hanker in silence after the flesh-pots of Egypt. To-night they could laugh and talk over _Olov hasholom_ times--"Peace be upon him" times--with their old cronies, and loosen the stays of social ambition, even while they dazzled the Ghetto with the splendors47 of their get-up and the halo of the West End whence they came. It was a scene without parallel in the history of the world--this phantasmagoria of grubs and butterflies, met together for auld48 lang syne49 in their beloved hatching-place. Such violent contrasts of wealth and poverty as might be looked for in romantic gold-fields, or in unsettled countries were evolved quite naturally amid a colorless civilization by a people with an incurable50 talent for the picturesque.
"Hullo! Can that be you, Betsy?" some grizzled shabby old man would observe in innocent delight to Mrs. Arthur Montmorenci; "Why so it is! I never would have believed my eyes! Lord, what a fine woman you've grown! And so you're little Betsy who used to bring her father's coffee in a brown jug51 when he and I stood side by side in the Lane! He used to sell slippers52 next to my cutlery stall for eleven years--Dear, dear, how time flies to be sure."
Then Betsy Montmorenci's creamy face would grow scarlet53 under the gas-jets, and she would glower54 and draw her sables55 around her, and look round involuntarily, to see if any of her Kensington friends were within earshot.
Another Betsy Montmorenci would feel Bohemian for this occasion only, and would receive old acquaintances' greeting effusively56, and pass the old phrases and by-words with a strange sense of stolen sweets; while yet a third Betsy Montmorenci, a finer spirit this, and worthier57 of the name, would cry to a Betsy Jacobs:
"Is that you, Betsy, how _are_ you? How _are_ you? I'm so glad to see you. Won't you come and treat me to a cup of chocolate at Bonn's, just to show you haven't forgot _Olov hasholom_ times?"
And then, having thus thrown the responsibility of stand-offishness on the poorer Betsy, the Montmorenci would launch into recollections of those good old "Peace be upon him" times till the grub forgot the splendors of the caterpillar58 in a joyous59 resurrection of ancient scandals. But few of the Montmorencis, whatever their species, left the Ghetto without pressing bits of gold into half-reluctant palms in shabby back-rooms where old friends or poor relatives mouldered60.
Overhead, the stars burned silently, but no one looked up at them. Underfoot, lay the thick, black veil of mud, which the Lane never lifted, but none looked down on it. It was impossible to think of aught but humanity in the bustle61 and confusion, in the cram62 and crush, in the wedge and the jam, in the squeezing and shouting, in the hubbub63 and medley64. Such a jolly, rampant65, screaming, fighting, maddening, jostling, polyglot66, quarrelling, laughing broth67 of a Vanity Fair! Mendicants, vendors68, buyers, gossips, showmen, all swelled70 the roar.
"Here's your cakes! All _yontovdik_ (for the festival)! _Yontovdik_--"
"_Yontovdik_! Only one shilling--"
"It's the Rav's orders, mum; all legs of mutton must be porged or my license--"
"Cowcumbers! Cowcumbers!"
"Now's your chance--"
"The best trousers, gentlemen. Corst me as sure as I stand--"
"On your own head, you old--"
"_Arbah Kanfus_ (four fringes)! _Arbah_--"
"My old man's been under an operation--"
"Hokey Pokey! _Yontovdik_! Hokey--"
"Get out of the way, can't you--"
"By your life and mine, Betsy--"
"Gord blesh you, mishter, a toisand year shall ye live."
"Eat the best _Motsos_. Only fourpence--"
"The bones must go with, marm. I've cut it as lean as possible."
"_Charoises_ (a sweet mixture). _Charoises! Moroire_ (bitter herb)! _Chraine_ (horseradish)! _Pesachdik_ (for Passover)."
"Come and have a glass of Old Tom, along o' me, sonny."
"Fine plaice! Here y'are! Hi! where's yer pluck! S'elp me--"
"Bob! _Yontovdik! Yontovdik_! Only a bob!"
"Chuck steak and half a pound of fat."
"A slap in the eye, if you--"
"Gord bless you. Remember me to Jacob."
"_Shaink_ (spare) _meer_ a 'apenny, missis _lieben_, missis _croin_ (dear)--"
"Lord! Sal, how you've altered!"
"Ladies, here you are--"
"I give you my word, sir, the fish will be home before you."
"Painted in the best style, for a tanner--"
"A spoonge, mister?"
"I'll cut a slice of this melon for you for--"
"She's dead, poor thing, peace be upon him."
"_Yontovdik_! Three bob for one purse containing--"
"Tree lemons a penny. Tree lemons--"
"A _Shtibbur_ (penny) for a poor blind man--"
"_Yontovdik! Yontovdik! Yontovdik! Yontovdik!_"
And in this last roar, common to so many of the mongers, the whole Babel would often blend for a moment and be swallowed up, re-emerging anon in its broken multiplicity.
Everybody Esther knew was in the crowd--she met them all sooner or later. In Wentworth Street, amid dead cabbage-leaves, and mud, and refuse, and orts, and offal, stood the woe-begone Meckisch, offering his puny75 sponges, and wooing the charitable with grinning grimaces76 tempered by epileptic fits at judicious77 intervals78. A few inches off, his wife in costly79 sealskin jacket, purchased salmon80 with a Maida Vale manner. Compressed in a corner was Shosshi Shmendrik, his coat-tails yellow with the yolks of dissolving eggs from a bag in his pocket. He asked her frantically81, if she had seen a boy whom he had hired to carry home his codfish and his fowls82, and explained that his missus was busy in the shop, and had delegated to him the domestic duties. It is probable, that if Mrs. Shmendrik, formerly83 the widow Finkelstein, ever received these dainties, she found her good man had purchased fish artificially inflated84 with air, and fowls fattened85 with brown paper. Hearty86 Sam Abrahams, the bass87 chorister, whose genial88 countenance89 spread sunshine for yards around, stopped Esther and gave her a penny. Further, she met her teacher, Miss Miriam Hyams, and curtseyed to her, for Esther was not of those who jeeringly90 called "teacher" and "master" according to sex after her superiors, till the victims longed for Elisha's influence over bears. Later on, she was shocked to see her teacher's brother piloting bonny Bessie Sugarman through the thick of the ferment91. Crushed between two barrows, she found Mrs. Belcovitch and Fanny, who were shopping together, attended by Pesach Weingott, all carrying piles of purchases.
"Esther, if you should see my Becky in the crowd, tell her where I am," said Mrs. Belcovitch. "She is with one of her chosen young men. I am so feeble, I can hardly crawl around, and my Becky ought to carry home the cabbages. She has well-matched legs, not one a thick one and one a thin one."'
Around the fishmongers the press was great. The fish-trade was almost monopolized92 by English Jews--blonde, healthy-looking fellows, with brawny93, bare arms, who were approached with dread94 by all but the bravest foreign Jewesses. Their scale of prices and politeness varied95 with the status of the buyer. Esther, who had an observant eye and ear for such things, often found amusement standing96 unobtrusively by. To-night there was the usual comedy awaiting her enjoyment97. A well-dressed dame98 came up to "Uncle Abe's" stall, where half a dozen lots of fishy99 miscellanaea were spread out.
"Good evening, madam. Cold night but fine. That lot? Well, you're an old customer and fish are cheap to-day, so I can let you have 'em for a sovereign. Eighteen? Well, it's hard, but--boy! take the lady's fish. Thank you. Good evening."
"Can't take less than nine bob. Fish are dear to-day. You won't get anything cheaper in the Lane, by G---- you won't. Five shillings! By my life and by my children's life, they cost me more than that. So sure as I stand here and--well, come, gie's seven and six and they're yours. You can't afford more? Well, 'old up your apron102, old gal103. I'll make it up out of the rich. By your life and mine, you've got a _Metsiah_ (bargain) there!"
Here old Mrs. Shmendrik, Shosshi's mother, came up, a rich Paisley shawl over her head in lieu of a bonnet104. Lane women who went out without bonnets105 were on the same plane as Lane men who went out without collars.
One of the terrors of the English fishmongers was that they required the customer to speak English, thus fulfilling an important educative function in the community. They allowed a certain percentage of jargon-words, for they themselves took licenses106 in this direction, but they professed107 not to understand pure Yiddish.
"Abraham, 'ow mosh for dees lot," said old Mrs. Shmendrik, turning over a third similar heap and feeling the fish all over.
"Paws off!" said Abraham roughly. "Look here! I know the tricks of you Polakinties. I'll name you the lowest price and won't stand a farthing's bating. I'll lose by you, but you ain't, going to worry me. Eight bob! There!"
"Avroomkely (dear little Abraham) take lebbenpence!"
"Elevenpence! By G----," cried Uncle Abe, desperately108 tearing his hair. "I knew it!" And seizing a huge plaice by the tail he whirled it round and struck Mrs. Shmendrik full in the face, shouting, "Take that, you old witch! Sling109 your hook or I'll murder you."
"Thou dog!" shrieked110 Mrs. Shmendrik, falling back on the more copious111 resources of her native idiom. "A black year on thee! Mayest thou swell69 and die! May the hand that struck me rot away! Mayest thou be burned alive! Thy father was a _Gonof_ and thou art a _Gonof_ and thy whole family are _Gonovim_. May Pharaoh's ten plagues--"
There was little malice112 at the back of it all--the mere19 imaginative exuberance113 of a race whose early poetry consisted in saying things twice over.
Uncle Abraham menacingly caught up the plaice, crying:
"May I be struck dead on the spot, if you ain't gone in one second I won't answer for the consequences. Now, then, clear off!"
"Come, Avroomkely," said Mrs. Shmendrik, dropping suddenly from invective114 to insinuativeness. "Take fourteenpence. _Shemah, beni_! Fourteen _Shtibbur's_ a lot of _Gelt."_
"Are you a-going?" cried Abraham in a terrible rage. "Ten bob's my price now."
"Avroomkely, _noo, zoog_ (say now)! Fourteenpence 'apenny. I am a poor voman. Here, fifteenpence."
Abraham seized her by the shoulders and pushed her towards the wall, where she cursed picturesquely115. Esther thought it was a bad time to attempt to get her own shilling's worth--she fought her way towards another fishmonger.
There was a kindly116, weather-beaten old fellow with whom Esther had often chaffered job-lots when fortune smiled on the Ansells. Him, to her joy, Esther perceived--she saw a stack of gurnards on his improvised117 slab118, and in imagination smelt119 herself frying them. Then a great shock as of a sudden icy douche traversed her frame, her heart seemed to stand still. For when she put her hand to her pocket to get her purse, she found but a thimble and a slate-pencil and a cotton handkerchief. It was some minutes before she could or would realize the truth that the four and sevenpence halfpenny on which so much depended was gone. Groceries and unleavened cakes Charity had given, raisin120 wine had been preparing for days, but fish and meat and all the minor121 accessories of a well-ordered Passover table--these were the prey122 of the pickpocket123. A blank sense of desolation overcame the child, infinitely124 more horrible than that which she felt when she spilled the soup; the gurnards she could have touched with her finger seemed far off, inaccessible125; in a moment more they and all things were blotted126 out by a hot rush of tears, and she was jostled as in a dream hither and thither127 by the double stream of crowd. Nothing since the death of Benjamin had given her so poignant128 a sense of the hollowness and uncertainty129 of existence. What would her father say, whose triumphant130 conviction that Providence131 had provided for his Passover was to be so rudely dispelled132 at the eleventh hour. Poor Moses! He had been so proud of having earned enough money to make a good _Yontov_, and was more convinced than ever that given a little capital to start with he could build up a colossal133 business! And now she would have to go home and spoil everybody's _Yontov_, and see the sour faces of her little ones round a barren _Seder_ table. Oh, it was terrible! and the child wept piteously, unheeded in the block, unheard amid the Babel.
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