When the Dew Falleth
SIMAH Come, I’ll show you. Sh!—Here they come.
(They disappear behind the trees. Ezra, Nacho- mah and Faigen return.)
EZRA Ha, ha, ha! When I married her, she was just a young goat. She was still playing with sand in her cap and with “jacks”. Ha, ha, ha!l— wouldn’t let me out of her sight—she, the goat. NACHOMAH Ah, if one could coax those years back again! When I had my first baby, I was a mere baby myself. EZRA She didn’t know what was growing there under her heart. You could have talked it into her that she had kittens in there. Ha, ha, ha! NACHOMAH Go, go. How then?—too young, of course. FAIGEN (laughing reminiscently) Ah, those young, happy years! EZRA They married me off. Didn’t even know what it was all about. Thought it was like play- ing in “buttons” with the boys. And she— she was just a goat. (He pinches her cheek affectionately.) FAIGEN Tu-tu-tu! If one could but recall those years. The world is wiser now.
(They pass on. Simah and Asher return.)
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