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 He’s just realized that the child is missing! I can’t stand it!

&emsp;(entering) The dogs are barking in the village. That must be they—returning.

People, are your heads clear? Bring me my household here—my old woman and the children. Reb Yoel Chayim, asleep? Wake up, Jews are rejoicing!

(Zayde enters. There is an immediate uproar. The women kiss him; the bride falls on his neck and weeps.)

Where’s Pesele?

I haven’t seen her. The horses ought to be led into the barn. The storm is fearful!

The devil won’t take them!

Say, people, really where is my daughter?

You’re drunk, and you don’t even know where you are in the world!

Woman that you are! Never mind. She'll come back. The goat’ll come home!

Come, Shmereh, let us drive home. Come, Tzirele, we'll go home.