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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

CHAPTER XI
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Pipes, rags, shells, broken and discarded tubs: every one flung whatever was useless to him into the street, thus affording the passer-by an opportunity of exercising all his five senses with the rubbish.

A man on horseback could almost touch with his hand the poles thrown across the street from one house to another, upon which hung Jewish stockings, short trousers, and smoked geese.

Sometimes a pretty little Hebrew face, adorned with discoloured pearls, peeped out of an old window.

A group of little Jews, with torn and dirty garments and curly hair, screamed and rolled about in the dirt.

A red-haired Jew, with freckles all over his face which made him look like a sparrow's egg, gazed from a window.


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