"He will have to give the Sunday sermons at least in a larger synagogue.

My own _Shool_, the German, will be glad to give him facilities." "But what if they want to take him altogether at a higher salary ?" said Mendel.
"No, I'm on the Committee, I'll see to that," said Karlkammer reassuringly.
"Then do you think we shall tell him we can't afford to give him more ?" asked Belcovitch.
There was a murmur of assent with a fainter mingling of dissent.

The motion that the _Maggid's_ application be refused was put to the vote and carried by a large majority.
It was the fate of the _Maggid_ to be the one subject on which Belcovitch and the Shalotten _Shammos_ agreed.

They agreed as to his transcendent merits and they agreed as to the adequacy of his salary.
"But he's so weakly," protested Mendel Hyams, who was in the minority.
"He coughs blood." "He ought to go to a sunny place for a week," said Belcovitch compassionately.
"Yes, he must certainly have that," said Karlkammer.

"Let us add as a rider that although we cannot pay him more per week, he must have a week's holiday in the country.