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 Altar, did you know—you’ve become a bridegroom?

How is your mamma?

Mother just had a boy. Come home, father.

(There is a great to-do, everyone shouting “Mazeltov, Klavne.”)

Oh, woe is me! Mazel-tov, mazel-tov to you, Klavne!

&emsp;(to Klavne) I rode the horse over. You can harness him to the sled—anyway so we can pull through the snow.

Why didn’t you bring mamma along?

I’m telling you—mamma just had a boy.

Who—Shifroh? My wife? My pious wife? Then, why do you all keep so quiet, brothers? Shmereh, kinsman—“‘Whatever we are, we are; but Jews we'll ever be…” Come here, son. Where is she—the bride?&emsp;(Looking around for Shprintze.)

What are you looking for, papa?