She was a slim, graceful little thing, with nothing obviously odd about the legs, and was buying onions.

Her back was towards him, but in another moment she turned her head and Bear's.

As he caught the sparkle of her eye, he felt that without her life were worse than the conscription.

Without delay, he made inquiries about the fair young vision, and finding its respectability unimpeachable, he sent a _Shadchan_ to propose to her, and they were affianced: Chayah's father undertaking to give a dowry of two hundred gulden.

Unfortunately, he died suddenly in the attempt to amass them, and Chayah was left an orphan.