'Insulted!' quoth Straumann. 'It's you that must apologize, you illiterate icthyosaurus! I appeal to the President.'
'You have both insulted me,' was that worthy's ruling. 'I give the word to Mr. Mendel.'
'But——' from both the combatants simultaneously.
'Order, order!' from a dozen throats.
'I said Simeon Samuels' name must be put in,' Mendel repeated.
'You should have said so before—the resolution is carried now,' said the President.
'And a fat lot of good it will do,' said Peleg. 'Gentlemen, if you knew him as well as I, if you had my barometer to read him by, you'd see that the only remedy is to put him in Cherem' (excommunication).
'If he can't get buried it is a kind of Cherem,' said the Gabbai.
'Assuredly,' added the Parnass. 'He will be frightened to think that if he dies suddenly——'
'And he is sure to take a sudden death,' put in Barzinsky with unction.