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 A Jewish face, no? Like your grandmother, no doubt.

A clever woman! A relation, I suppose?

Nu, of course, a relation.

Passed by on the road, and so came in to rest.

You see, a mere child yet and what a tub of bread she’s kneaded!&emsp;(She uncovers the tub to show them.)

Take the pillow off or it will run over!

&ensp;(enthusiastically) That’s kneading bread for you! Not for nothing is it running over!

I didn’t knead it so very much!

Ah! Ah! What bread, what bread!

Papa is going to bring home some whitewash and I’m going to whitewash the house. We weren’t allowed to do it before, mamma died only last Passover.

Is that so! Your mamma is dead! She was very young yet, I suppose?&emsp;(To his son.)&emsp;You hear, son, so young and already an orphan! And how she handles the household!