Choynski

“Yeah.”

“Do you know what that is?”

“Not really.”

“Me neither.”

“He was a blacksmith before he was a candypuller.”

“He fought out of the California Club when he met Corbett on the barge.”

“When he worked in the candy factory, he trained at the Golden Gate Club.”

“His father was a publisher. Some Jewish paper.”

“He had his own later, Public Opinion. Isadore N. Choynski. He had a bookstore. He graduated from Yale.”

“His mother didn’t like him boxing.”

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