listened to his conversation, and once, sitting down beside him,
said:

"I see you are very learned. . . . Have you read the Bible?"

"I have read it. . . ."

"I see; I see. . . . Can you remember it?"

"Yes. . . . I remember it. . . ."

Then the old man leaned to one side and gazed at the other with a
serious, suspicious glance.

"There were the Amalekites, do you remember?"

"Well?"

"Where are they now?"

"Disappeared . . . Tyapa . . . died out . . ."

The old man was silent, then asked again: "And where are the
Philistines?"

"These also . . ."

"Have all these died out?"

"Yes . . . all . . ."