--Ēin Māl, führt weiter der Meeliz-jōscher noch a Trunk Wasser, is' in sein Leben a Schinui gewor'en ... es is' durchgeflōgen a Kotsch mit gummene Räder mit zuploschete Ferd' ... der Schmeisser is' schōn lang vun weitens gelegen mit a zuspaltenem Kopp auf'n Bruk ... vun die derschrockene Ferd's Maüler spritzt der Schaum, vun unter die Podkowes jāgen sich Funken, wie vun Lokomotiw, die Äugen blischtschen wie brennendige Sturkatzen in a finsterer Nacht,--un' in Kotsch sitzt nischt tōt, nischt lebedig, a Mensch. Bonzje hāt die Ferd' verhalten! Der Gerateweter is' gewesen a Jüd, a Balzdoke, un' hāt Bonzjen die Tōwe nischt vergessen. Er hāt ihm dem Gehargenten's Kelnje übergegeben; Bonzje is' a Schmeisser gewor'en! Noch mehr,--er hāt ihm Chassene gemacht, noch mehr,--er hāt ihm afile mit a Kind versorgt,--un' Bonzje hāt alls geschwiegen! --Mich mēint män, mich! befestigt sich Bonzje in der Deje, un' hāt sich die Hose nischt, an Äug' zu warfen auf'n Bess-din-schel-majle.... Er hört sich weiter ein zum Malech-meeliz: "He did not ask loud for his pay. Like a mendicant he stood at the door with a doglike prayer in his eyes. 'Come later!' and he disappeared quietly like a shadow, in order to ask later still more quietly for his dues! * * * * * "He was silent even when they knocked off something from his pay, or paid him in a counterfeit coin ... he was silent...." "It seems they really mean me!" Bontsie consoles himself. * * * * * "Once," proceeds the Advocate, after taking a drink of water, "there came a change in his life ... a coach with rubber wheels and frightened horses rushed by ... the driver lay way back on the pavement with his head split open ... foam spurted from the mouths of the frightened horses, and sparks flew from under their feet, as from a locomotive; their eyes sparkled like glowing coals in a dark night,--and in the coach there was sitting, more dead than alive, a man! * * * * * "Bontsie stopped the runaway. "The person thus saved was a Jew, a charitable man, and he did not forget Bontsie's kindness. "He transferred to him the seat of the killed man; Bontsie became a driver! More than that,--he got him married; still more, he provided him with a child ... and Bontsie kept silent all the time!" * * * * * "They mean me, they mean me!" Bontsie strengthens himself in his belief, and he has no courage to raise his eyes on the Supreme Judge. He listens again to the Advocate. --Er hāt geschwiegen afile, wenn sein Baltōwe hāt in Kurzen bankrottirt un' ihm sein S-chires äuch.... Er hāt geschwiegen afile, wenn dās Weib is' ihm entloffen un' übergelāst ihm a Kind vun der Brust....