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Oh, it was terrible! and the child wept piteously, unheeded in the block, unheard amid the Babel. An old Maaseh the grandmother had told her came back to her fevered brain. In a town in Russia lived an old Jew who earned scarce enough to eat, and half of what he did earn was stolen from him in bribes to the officials to let him be.
"Do you know that anecdote about the two Jews in the Transvaal?" Pinchas went on. "That's a real Chine." "I don't think I know that Maaseh," said Reb Shemuel. "Oh, the two Jews had made a trek and were travelling onwards exploring unknown country. One night they were sitting by their campfire playing cards when suddenly one threw up his cards, tore his hair and beat his breast in terrible agony.
Coleman was deeply perturbed. He was wondering whether he should plead guilty to a little knowledge, when a change of expression came over the wan face on the pillow. The doctor came and felt the boy's pulse. "No, I don't want to hear that Maaseh," cried Benjamin. "Tell me about the Sambatyon, father, which refuses to flow on Shabbos." He spoke Yiddish, grown a child again.
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