Description The operatives of the cloak-shop in which Jake was employed had been idle all the morning.
A rabbinical-looking man of thirty, who sat with the back of his chair tilted against his sewing machine, was intent upon an English newspaper..
The little sweltering assemblage-for it was an oppressive day in midsummer-beguiled their suspense variously.
It was after twelve o\'clock and the "boss" had not yet returned from Broadway, whither he had betaken himself two or three hours before in quest of work.
Description The operatives of the cloak-shop in which Jake was employed had been idle all the morning