One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor.
One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor.
" But the servant did not listen to him, and thought, "You have fleeced people often enough, now the thorn-bushes shall do the same to you;" and he began to play over again, so that the Jew had to jump higher than ever, and scraps of his coat were left hanging on the thorns.
"Little scraps which fall off the table of their own accord are not stolen, and are not worth speaking about.
" Two-Eyes answered, "Have I not reason to weep, when I have two eyes like other people, and my sisters and mother hate me for it, and push me from one corner to another, throw old clothes to me, and give me nothing to eat but the scraps they leave.
The two boys went in and out of the rich house, and often got some of the scraps to eat.
But the string by which her pockets were hung broke, the pots fell down, the soup ran out, and the scraps were scattered all about.
In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "for the scraps;" that is to say, to eat up the remains of the dinner.
Every evening I have permission to take home to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table; she lives down by the sea-shore, and as I come back I feel tired, and I sit down in the wood to rest, and listen to the nightingale's song.
