Chapter I: Front Matter

THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW

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POTASH AND PERLMUTTER

The Competitive Nephew

By

MONTAGUE GLASS

_Illustrated_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1915

_Copyright, 1915, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_

COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY, N.Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW 3
A Story of Business, Nepotism, Asthma, and Even Love

II. OPPORTUNITY 41
How It Knocked but Once on Mr. Zamp's Door, and Found Him on
the Job

III. THE SORROWS OF SEIDEN 60
Why You Should Never Even Begin with Your Wife's Relations

IV. SERPENTS' TEETH 99
Showing That Sometimes They Bite Both Ways

V. MAKING OVER MILTON 147
The Regeneration of a Lowlife

VI. BIRSKY & ZAPP 186
They Do Good by Stealth and Blush to Find It Pays

VII. THE MOVING PICTURE WRITES 238
And the Bella Hirshkind Home Nearly Makes a Haul

VIII. COERCING MR. TRINKMANN 288
So That Louis Berkfield Gets His Job Back

IX. "RUDOLPH WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN" 304
The Viennese Knockout of Two Continents

X. CAVEAT EMPTOR 327
Meaning, the Buyer Would Better Look Out

ILLUSTRATIONS

"He ain't been in the place a year, y'understand, and to-night he marries a relation of his boss and he gets three hundred dollars in the bargain" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"You heard what Sam says, Aaron, and me, I stick to it also" 28

"Nu, Belz, ain't you going to congradulate me?" 274

She postured, leaped, and pranced by turns 308

Transcriber's Note: Words in italics are indicated by _italics_.

THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW