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 Where are you? Come here, I'll put a little red ribbon on your neck.

(Fraidele returns.)

I put it on him already.

Now, come here. Sit down in my lap. I’ll put the red ribbon on you. What a very, very thin, little neck! But you’re already a marriageable girl!&emsp;(She kisses her neck.)&emsp;Oh, so sweet! So sweet! And a mother goes and dies and leaves such a child alone! Now wear it that way around your neck, pox and measles are going round in the villages.

Too bad papa went away.

Is he away long?

No, not long. If you’ll stay over night with us he’ll be back before dark.

&ensp;(taking a little linen bag out of the sack) Been to a Rejoicing—good people gave it to me. Hold out your hands and I’ll pour some into them. Nu—you know what that is?

The dark ones are raisins and the other—what is it?

Foolish little one. They’re almonds—real al-