Likewise she sewed underlinen and stitched slips of fur into caps in the privacy of home and midnight.

For all Mrs.Ansell's industry, the family had been a typical group of wandering Jews, straying from town to town in search of better things.
The congregation they left (every town which could muster the minimum of ten men for worship boasted its _Kehillah_) invariably paid their fare to the next congregation, glad to get rid of them so cheaply, and the new _Kehillah_ jumped at the opportunity of gratifying their restless migratory instinct and sent them to a newer.

Thus were they tossed about on the battledores of philanthropy, often reverting to their starting-point, to the disgust of the charitable committees.

Yet Moses always made loyal efforts to find work.

His versatility was marvellous.