way he had been silent: and whilst his wife wept passionately at the
pastor's touching address, it was only by the working of his features
that Christopher showed how deeply moved he was.

But on the way home he said: "I am glad I did him a kindness in his
lifetime; it would now be too late."

The summer after, when he built a new house, he had this verse placed
upon it as an inscription:

"Accept God's gifts with resignation,
Content to lack what thou hast not:
In every lot there's consolation;
There's trouble, too, in every lot."




A GHETTO VIOLET

BY

LEOPOLD KOMPERT


From "Christian and Leah." Translated by A.S. Arnold.


Through the open window came the clear trill of a canary singing
blithely in its cage. Within the tidy, homely little room a pale-faced