The Jewish advance., 1881-08-26

HuSDanu; tn1S was just Wnat ne desired,
He was going to retire hastily and to
put on the large earthen stove the little
parcel of. sugar and coffee, so that it
might strike the eyes of his aunt as
soon as she would enter her house, when
a singular incident prevented him from
accomplishing his design. The child in
his cradle awoke and cried so loud that
he thought his aunt must have heard it
in the church and would return without
delay in order to quiet her baby
What, she leaves her child alone? old
Miriam imperceptidly asked herself, and
touch of bitterness moved her thin lips;
but it soon disappeared, when Fishele
continued to tell that an older girl had
been there to whose care her rmother had
left the child. But in vain had she
tried to lull the child into sleep in vain
had she used words sweet like sugar and
honey, the child did not stop crying,
perhaps for the reason, as Fishele
thought, that "a stranger" was in
the room; for he had often been told
that the children are we'll aware of
this
A stranger Miriam exclaimed, but in
such low voice that the painful ex
preston escaped the boy notice.
At last, thus the boy continued, the
crying of the baby had touched his
heart; the older girl did not know what
to do and was already going to run to
the church in order to call her mother.
Then he himself approached the cradle
and rocked the child, until it fell to
sleep again. Thus he and the girl were
sitting opposite each other and rocking
the baby, but did not speak ''bit" to
each other.
That you might not wake the child?
asked the old woman.
That we might not wake the child!
quickly repeated the boy, whose face
flushed while he was saying this.
Go on! urged Miriam.
The rest Fishele could only report in
suffering manner. They had been go
ing on to rock the child, when suddenly,
he did not know yet how it had hap
pened, his aunt stood before him. How
he had been frightened! He wanted to
run away, wanted to break through, as
through a house which stood all liz
flames, but he could't do it. He wanted
to recite the first Psalm, but not single
word came to his mind 1t appeared to
him at that moment as if in his whole
life he had not learned Jewish word,
as if he did not know at all where God
is! Yet in all this fright and confusion
of his mind, the resemblance between
his aunt and his father had struck him
as very remarkable: whosoever would
have looked at her once, could not doubt
in the least but that she is his sister!
And what did she say? would like to
know it! the old woman cried almost
with vehemence.
She had grasped his hand and held it
fast. She had looked at him with eyes
filled with tears. Fishcle, she had said
to him in Bohemian, why do you want
to leave already?
In Bohemian. not in Jewish! the
grandmother remarked. To be sure, on
account of the children! she added i'm
mediately. For the first time in his
life, the boy continued without noticing
old Miriam's remarks, he has heard the
voice of his aunt, had spoken to her: to
be sure, he did not remember every
thing she had said, but it had appeared
to him as if he was want to talk to her
nothing had seemed strange to him.
And?
What?
Did YOU hand it to her?
He had quite forgotten it over the
many questions which his aunt had
asked him: how was grandma's health,
whether they took good care of her,
whether she enjoyed a sound sleep dur
ing the night, whether she did not suffer
from coughing? whether he, Fishele,