He is saving up money to go to college."
On parting he became fully respectful again. "Do as I tell you, Mr.
Levinsky," he said. "Take up cloak-making."
He made me write down his address. He expected that I would do
it in Yiddish. When he saw me write his name and the name of
the street in English he said, reverently: "Writing English already!
There is a mind for you! If I could write like that I could become a
designer. Well, don't lose the address. Call on me, and if you
make up your mind to take up cloak-making just say the word and
I'll fix you up. When Gitelson says he will, he will." The image of
that cloak-operator reading books and laying by money for a
college education haunted me. Why could I not do the same? I
pictured myself working and studying and saving money for the
kind of education which Matilda had dinned into my ears
I accepted Gitelson's offer. Cloak-making or the cloak business as
a career never entered my dreams at that time. I regarded the trade
merely as a stepping-stone to a life of intellectual interests
CHAPTER II THE operator to whom Gitelson apprenticed me was
a short, plump, dark-complexioned fellow named Joe.
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