Hearing that illegal gambling was a steady, lucrative criminal activity, they wasted no time in apprenticing myeck to a bookmaker. They were confused by the alien culture however, and tragically secured him a position with a bookbinder by mistake.
And not just any bookbinder, but Dummel's Good Books, a Bible maker, who were about to become notorious. Shortly after myeck went to work for Dummel's, they proudly introduced Dummel's Really Good Bible, advertised as "the best Bible we can make."
Initial sales were brisk, but success was short lived -- a simple mistake had eluded the proofreaders, and the False Bears Bible, as it became known, brought humiliation and financial ruin upon the proud printing house. They quickly ran out of money and resorted to simply tossing copies of their now-worthless bibles to myeck in lieu of an actual salary.
This practice caused myeck's immigrant father much confusion when he heard the phrase "throw the book at him" later in life.
A fine example of a False Bears Bible, still in myeck's family. Lacking the usual ribbons for placemarkers, myeck's immigrant parents used their citizenship application rejections to mark favorite passages.
By the time it was handed down to myeck, each of the Psalms had its own bookmark.
