The suitor protested to the Schadchen, who replied: "Well, what did I tell you? You surely don’t call that living?"'įourth, ‘The would-be bridegroom complained that the bride had one leg shorter than the other and limped. After the betrothal it emerged that the father was still alive and was serving a prison sentence. Third, 'The Schadchen had assured the suitor that the girl’s father was no longer living. " - "You needn’t lower your voice", interrupted the broker, "she’s deaf as well."' "She’s ugly and old, she squints and has bad teeth and bleary eyes. Second, 'The bridegroom was most disagreeably surprised when the bride was introduced to him, and drew the broker on one side and whispered his remonstrances: "Why have you brought me here?" he asked reproachfully.
"Well, what do you want? Isn’t she to have a single fault?"'
"Who’s talking about money? Are you marrying money then? After all it’s a wife that you want." If she’s neither young nor beautiful she’ll be all the more faithful to you." "Yes, but she’s not young any longer, and she’s not precisely a beauty."
But after all you’re not marrying the mother-in-law. "I don’t care for the mother-in-law", said the latter. Few of my favorites jokes from the book:įirst, a marriage-broker was defending the girl he had proposed against the young man’s protests. Brilliantly funny and fantastically refreshing.
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