No, I have not seen such people. But I have seen other people gathered, speaking about David Leizer, who is distributing bread and happiness. Is it true that your David has healed a woman who was suffering from an incurable disease and was already dying? KHESSIN. _Smiling._ No, that is not true. WANDERER. Is it true that David restored sight to a man who was blind from the day of his birth? KHESSIN. _Shaking his head._ No, that is not true. Some one has been deceiving the people who do not resemble us. Only God can perform miracles--David Leizer is only a kind-hearted and worthy man, such as all men who have not forgotten God should be. PURIKES. It is not true, Abraham Khessin. David is not an ordinary man, and he possesses a superhuman power. I know it. _The crowd that surrounded them is eagerly listening to Purikes._ PURIKES. I saw with my own eyes, how the one we regarded as a customer came upon the deserted, sunny road, but he was not a customer. I saw with my own eyes how he touched David with his hand, and David started to speak so terribly that I could not listen to him. Do you remember it, Ivan? BEZKRAINY. That's true. David is not an ordinary man. SONKA. Does an ordinary man throw money at people, like stones at a dog? Does an ordinary man go to weep over the grave of another's child, whom he did not bring forth, whom he did not fondle, and whom he did not bury when death came? WOMAN. _With child in her arms._ David is not an ordinary man. Who ever saw an ordinary man who was more a mother to a child than his own mother? Who hides behind the bed-curtain and watches how other people's children are eating, and who weeps for joy at the sight of them? Of whom even the tiniest children are not afraid, and they play with his venerable beard as with the beard of their grandfather? Did not the stupid little Rubin tear out a tuft of grey hair from David Leizer's venerable beard? Did David grow angry? Did he cry out for pain, did he stamp his feet? No, he began to laugh as if overcome with happiness, and he cried as though for joy. DRUNKARD. David is not an ordinary man. He is a queer fellow. I said to him: "Why do you give me money? It is true, I am barefooted and unwashed, but do not think that I will buy boots and soap for the money you give me. I'll spend it on drink in the nearest dram-shop." That's what I had to tell him, for although I am a drunkard, I am an honest man. And the queer David answered me jestingly, like a good-natured lunatic: "Semyon, if it pleases you to drink, please drink,--I have not come to teach the people but to bring them joy." OLD JEW. There are many teachers, but there is none to bring them joy. May God bless David who brings joy to mankind. BEZKRAINY. _To the drunkard._ So you didn't buy any boots, did you? DRUNKARD. No, I am an honest man. VIOLINIST. _In despair._