And all the horsemen knew her.

* * *

“Don’t dress that hen inside the house,”

The wife was heard to mutter.

“All right,” said he, “I’ll stand outside

Upon the curb and gutter.”

* * *

The Hope of the Fat

The incorrigible joker stood outside the Great Synagogue, as the Chosen were pouring out, last Shobboz, and declaimed: “There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may.”

And a fat, greasy-looking little man sidled up to him and wheezed: