A CONTRACT WITH GOD
AN OTHER TENEMENT STORIES
By Will Eisner
A CONTRACT WITH GOD – All Day the rain poured down on the Bronx without mercy. The sewers overflowed and the waters rose over the curbs of the street. The tenement at no. 55 Dropsy Avenue seemed ready to rise and float away on the swirling tide! Like the Arc of Noah…it seemed to Frimme Hersch as he sloshed homeward.
Only the ten thousand Weeping Angels could cause such a deluge! And come to think of it, maybe that was exactly what it was…after all this was the day Frimme Hersch buried Rachel his daughter.
Not so unusual a father brings up a child with care and love only to lose her…plucked as if it were from his arms by an unseen hand – the Hand of God.
