The Snowstorm
Pesele
Will I live to be so old?
Yoel Chayim
Ha, ha! not every one lives to be a hundred.
Pesele
Father will live that long, too.
Yoel Chayim
If father can outwit Him!
Pesele
Whom do you mean?
Yoel Chayim
Ha, ha! Him, I mean—the Angel of Death.
Pesele
How did you fool him?
Yoel Chayim
Ha, ha, ha! He came and stood in the doorway with his great knife in his hand and searched for me with his thousand eyes. What did I do? I dressed up my knee with my skull-cap and extended it to him—and he slaughtered me in the knee. Ha, ha, ha!
Pesele
Did it leave a mark on your knee?
Yoel Chayim
A mark. It looked like a red thread on the skin. (He drinks a glass of brandy.) Even He can be fooled. Look and see if the folks are coming now.
Pesele
Now, I’m afraid to look out of the window.
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