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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... the story, was challenged to fight, and it was arranged between the two adversaries that they should fight with swords. When the Pole had his weapon in hand, he was about to fall at once on his opponent, without troubling himself either about tierce or quart, of which he probably understood nothing. The seconds therefore ran between them, saying, "But, Mr. Ephraim, that is wholly against the rule fregel)" "How!" exclaimed the furious Pole; "Regel? I do not aim at the foot (regel), I aim at the head (roach)." It was truly a holiday-time, those Friday evenings, when a Pole got into the story-telling vein, and one tale was begun almost before the other was ended. Por even supposing that the story was known to the parents, it was then told especially for the child, the parents expressing themselves as quite pleased to hear it again. And so they were! And even if they--every one--could have told the story themselves, they listened to it again with as much zest as if it was quite new. It was not merely the hald narrative that they heard in the most frequently told religious stories; it was God's spirit which they recognised, and which was always new and interesting. It was on one of these occasions that Jacob got his uncle to tell him about his being taken prisoner during the war in the disguise of a woman. A gourmand does not anticipate with more delight the savoury dish which is made ready for him, than Jacob, as he prepared himself to listen to his uncle's narrative. "Our prince," began Isaac Bamberger, "was obliged, in concert with bis neighbour, to send a man to the army, but as he and his neighbour were not on good terms, he would, for his part, only send one half, and therefore he chose my old bund father. Now as a young, lively fellow, is always of more ...
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