Mendel I Thought

Mendel I ThoughtIn the Heder that I attended in Warsaw, there was a boy, Mendel, with the nickname "I Thought." That's what the boys called him and the reason for it was that he made countless mistakes for which he always had the same answer: "I thought." For instance--one time, as winter approached, he tried to slide over the sewer in front of our heder. The real frosts hadn't yet started and the sewer was merely covered by a thin layer of ice. Mendel took off on the run and...