But if you were a scribe the letter would burn.

I don't pretend to be a _Maggid_, don't you set up to be a letter writer." "Well, but do you think it's honorable ?" "Hear, O Israel!" cried the Shalotten _Shammos_, spreading out his palms impatiently.

"Haven't I written letters for twenty years ?" The _Maggid_ was silenced.

He walked on brooding.

"And what is this place, Burnmud, I ask to go to ?" he inquired.
"Bournemouth," corrected the other.