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 &emsp;(who has been dozing the while, wakes up, rubs his eyes and begins to sing) Oi dim, dim-dim-dim, o1 doi, dim-dim-diam.

Long live Reb Yoel Chayim.

Shmereh, give us your hand! Come, people, let’s all go over to my place. Let my old woman know, too, that her son has become betrothed.

She really ought to be told—your old woman.

Couldn’t take her along. She’s expecting…Let her know too.

I am going to tweak his ear—the bridegroom’s! Come, folks, let’s travel. And you, my daughter, Tzirel Shprintze or Shprintze Tzirel—what difference—both her grandmothers were pious Jewesses! Listen, people…

(Vaveh and Urtcha run in laughing loudly.)

Come in, come in.

Do you know who broke the pane?

My ram. With his horns he broke it.

The barn door must have been left open, so he got out and ran after us.