The young man blandly put it on one side, and planted a return blow on the hostler's ear.

Enraged, his opponent sprang upon him.

The young Jew paralyzed him by putting his left hand negligently into his pocket.

With his remaining hand he closed the hostler's right eye, and sent the flesh about it into mourning.

Then he carelessly tapped a little blood from the hostler's nose, gave him a few thumps on the chest as if to test the strength of his lungs, and laid him sprawling in the courtyard.