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Such delicious peace for father and mother after the labors of the week! It was the Sabbath Fire-woman who forced clearly upon the child's understanding what was long but a dim idea in the background of his mind that the world was not all Jews.
It was a comfort to think that even in hell there is no fire on the Sabbath, and no Fire-woman. When the Messiah came, perhaps they would all be forgiven. Did not the Talmud say that all Israel with the good men of all nations would have a part in the world to come? There were many fasts in the Ghetto calendar, most of them twelve hours long, but some twenty-four.
For while the people who lived inside the gates had been chosen and consecrated to the service of the God of Israel, who had brought them out of Egyptian bondage and made them slaves to Himself, outside the gates were people who were not expected to obey the law of Moses; so that while he might not touch the fire nor even the candlesticks which had held fire from Friday evening to Saturday night, the Fire-woman could poke and poke at the logs to her heart's content.
May the curtain fall on a gibbering epileptic! 'Can't hear! said Goldwater. 'Speak plainer. 'I will speak plainer, swine-head! Never shall a work of mine defile itself in your dirty dollar-factory. I spit on you! He spat viciously into the telephone disk. But Goldwater had cut off the connection. Pinchas finished for his own satisfaction: 'An Irish fire-woman.
"It is the fire-woman's," said Greta. "And who and what may she be? I have heard of water-women, sometimes called mermaids, but never before did I hear of a fire-woman." "She don't live in fire," said Greta; "she sells it. What do the poor people in your country do in summer without a fire-woman? Come and look in." By this time they had reached the place.
"I should just love it," said Roberta "do you think I could when I'm grown up, Daddy? Or even a stoker?" "You mean a fireman," said Daddy, pulling and twisting at the engine. "Well, if you still wish it, when you're grown up, we'll see about making you a fire-woman. I remember when I was a boy " Just then there was a knock at the front door. "Who on earth!" said Father.
For when three stars appeared in the sky the Fire-woman sank back into her primitive insignificance, and the child's father made the Habdalah, or ceremony of division between week-day and Sabbath, thanking God who divideth holiday from working-day, and light from darkness.
Yes, the Fire-woman was indeed an inferior creature, existing mainly to boil the Ghetto's tea-kettles and snuff its candles, and was well rewarded by the copper coin which she gathered from every hearth as soon as one might touch money.
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