Er hāt geschwiegen afile mit fufzehn Jāhr später, wenn dās Kind is' aufgewachsen un' genug stark gewesen,--Bonzjen arauszuwarfen vun Stub'.... --Mich mēint män, mich! frēut sich Bonzje. * * * * * --Er hāt afile geschwiegen, hēbt ān wēicher un' traueriger der Malech-meeliz, wenn der ēigener Baltōwe hāt sich mit Alle ausgegleicht, nor ihm kēin Groschen S-chires nischt zurückgegeben,--un' afile demelt, wenn er is' Bonzjen (weiter fāhrendig auf a Kotsch mit gummene Räder un' Ferd' wie Loeben) übergefāhren.... --Er hāt alls geschwiegen! Er hāt afile der Polizēi nischt gesāgt, wer es hāt ihm zurecht gemacht.... * * * * * --Er hāt geschwiegen afile in Spital, wu män mäg schōn schreien! Er hāt geschwiegen afile, wenn der Doktor hāt ohn' fufzehn Kop. nischt gewollt zu'n ihm zugēhn, un' der Wächter ohn' fünf Kop.--tauschen die Wäsch'! Er hāt geschwiegen beim Gōssen, er hāt geschwiegen in der letzter Rege, beim Starben.... Kēin Wort gegen Gott, kēin Wort gegen Leut'! Dixi! * * * * * Bonzje hēbt ān weiter zu zittern auf'n ganzen Leib. Er wēisst, as nāch'n Meeliz-jōscher gēht der Katēgor. Wer wēisst, wās der wet sāgen? Er allēin hāt sein ganz Leben nischt gedenkt, noch auf jener Welt hāt er jede Minut die früherdige vergessen ... der Meeliz-jōscher "He was silent even when his benefactor became bankrupt and did not pay him his wages.... He was silent even when his wife ran away and left him with a nursing babe.... "He was silent even fifteen years later when the child grew up, and was strong enough to throw Bontsie out of doors...." "They mean me, they mean me!" Bontsie says joyfully. "He was silent," the Advocate begins again with a softer and sadder voice, "when his benefactor resumed business, but did not pay him a cent, and even then, when he ran over him, again riding in a carriage with rubber tires, and horses like lions. * * * * * "He was all that time silent! He did not even tell the police who had maimed him so. * * * * * "He was silent even in the hospital, where one may cry! "He was silent even when the doctor would not come to him unless he was paid fifteen kopeks, and the janitor would not change his shirt without five kopeks! "He was silent during the last moments of his life, he was silent in his death agony.... "Not a word against God, not a word against man! Dixi!" * * * * * Bontsie begins again to tremble in his whole body. He knows that after the Advocate comes the Prosecuting Attorney. Who knows what he will say? He himself had never, during his whole life, preserved the memory of anything ... in the other world, he forgot hāt ihm All's dermāhnt ... wer wēisst, wās der Katēgor wet ihm dermāhnen!