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For several years my grandfather travelled in Hode's train, in the capacity of shohat providing kosher meat for the little troup in the unholy wilds of "far Russia"; and the grateful couple rewarded him so generously that he soon had a fortune of eighty rubles laid by. My grandfather thought the time had now come to settle down, but he did not know how to invest his wealth.
They lived on Ben Hode's place two or three years after freedom. "I farmed, cooked, and ironed all my life. I don't know how to do nothing else. "I live with my daughter. I got a son." Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Henry Stith 2223 W. Nineteenth Street Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 72 "I was born la Sparta in Hancock County, Georgia, in January 26, 1866.
But M. de la Hode's book is liable to the same objection as most of the French memoirs of that and of subsequent periods. About a hundred and eighty millions of livres were levied in this manner, of which eighty were applied in payment of the debts contracted by the government. The remainder found its way into the pockets of the courtiers.
And Hode's manners were as much a subject of gossip as her clothes, for she had picked up strange ways in her travels Although she was so pious that she was never tempted to eat trefah, no matter if she had to go hungry, her conduct in other respects was not strictly orthodox. For one thing, she was in the habit of shaking hands with men, looking them straight in the face.
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