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Even when the wind doesn't blow you can hear them humming, humming People talk through them.

Who?

Jews.

No—they telegraph.

They talk through them and from some other place they get answered. And it all goes through the iron strings—that's why they hum like that—they hum-m

What do they hum?

They hum! ninety-nine, ninety-nine. Just listen.

What for?

That sparrow's listening, too. He's cocked one eye and looks at me as if to say: "I'd like to know what they're talking about."