'Not he. An Englishman plays fair,' retorted Barzinsky. He seriously considered himself a Briton, regarding his naturalization papers as retrospective. 'We are just passing the Reverend Gabriel's house,' he went on. 'Let us wait a moment; he'll come along, and we'll give him a piece of our minds.' 'I can't keep my family waiting for _Kiddush'_ (home service), said Peleg. 'Come home, father; I'm hungry,' put in Peleg junior, who with various Barzinsky boys had been trailing in the parental wake. 'Silence, impudent face!' snapped Barzinsky. 'If I was your father----Ah, here comes the minister. Good _Shabbos_ (Sabbath), Mr. Gabriel. I congratulate you on the effect of your last sermon.' An exultant light leapt into the minister's eye. 'Is he shut?' 'Is your mouth shut?' Solomon replied scathingly. 'I doubt if he'll even come to _Shool_ (synagogue) to-morrow.' The ministerial mouth remained open in a fishy gasp, but no words came from it. 'I'm afraid you'll have to use stronger language, Mr. Gabriel,' said the _Parnass_ soothingly. 'But if he is not there to hear it.' 'Oh, don't listen to Barzinsky. He'll be there right enough. Just give it to him hot!' 'Your sermon was too general,' added Peleg, who had lingered, though his son had not. 'You might have meant any of us.' 'But we must not shame our brother in public,' urged the minister. 'It is written in the Talmud that he who does so has no share in the world to come.' 'Well, you shamed us all,' retorted Barzinsky. 'A stranger would imagine we were a congregation of Sabbath-breakers.' 'But there wasn't any stranger,' said the minister. 'There was Simeon Samuels,' the _Parnass_ reminded him. 'Perhaps your sermon against Sabbath-breaking made him fancy he was just one of a crowd, and that you have therefore only hardened him----' 'But you told me to preach against Sabbath-breaking,' said the poor minister. 'Against the Sabbath-breaker,' corrected the _Parnass_. 'You didn't single him out,' added Barzinsky; 'you didn't even make it clear that Joseph wasn't myself.' 'I said Joseph was a goodly person and well-favoured,' retorted the goaded minister. The _Parnass_ took snuff, and his sneeze sounded like a guffaw. 'Well, well,' he said more kindly, 'you must try again to-morrow.' 'I didn't undertake to preach every Saturday,' grumbled the minister, growing bolder. 'As long as Simeon Samuels keeps open, you can't shut,' said Solomon angrily. 'It's a duel between you,' added Peleg. 'And Simeon actually comes into to-morrow's _Sedrah_' (portion), Barzinsky remembered exultantly. '"And took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes." There's your very text. You'll pick out Simeon from among us, and bind him to keep the Sabbath.' 'Or you can say Satan has taken Simeon and bound him,' added the _Parnass_. 'You have a choice--yourself or Satan.'