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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...gnominious meaning. In every place the settled families were obliged to entertain during the Sabbath a greater or smaller, number of " guests," according to their ability, and on Sunday morning provide them with traveling money. On week days their support was left more or less to private charity. The most thankless ofiice in connection with this Sabbath-quartering fell to the church-warden, who distributed the tickets; he could not suit anybody; the beggars cursed and reviled him, a for it Avas none other than the unhappy almoner who was the object of the above-quoted imprecations. The Jewish poor-house-of-entertainment at Bres-lau was situated on Charles Street in the so-called fencing-school, a sort of barracks enclosing a large area like a market-place, in the middle of which was a kind of store-house of goods, with a small tower and a striking-clock; in the circumjacent houses, of which one row abutted against the ramparts, lived forty or fifty Jewish families; and in one of the court-yards stood the so-called Lissa Synagogue, into a dirty room opposite which the beggars above mentioned now entered. "With whom do you dine, Schnauzcrle? " asked a burly fellow with a rattling in his throat. "With whom do I dine? with whom do I starve? a you'd better say Once more I say, let him be swallowed up alive, if he sends me to Lamray Biir, who looks like a time of famine, and his wife like a smoked herring, such a great long-legged, raw-boned, sixteen-hand-high old cook." Such was the answer of the party spoken to, a man with a desperate face, who was further distinguished from his companions by wearing leather breeches with broad red stripes on the sides and a row of brass buttons; the silver ear-rings, which peeped out from under the black..."
| ISBN-13 | 9781151791108 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151791105 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $20.92 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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