THE CHILDHOOD OF NAOMI Throughout Tetuan and the country round about Israel was now an object of contempt.

God had declared against him, God had brought him low, God Himself had filled him with confusion.

Then why should man show him mercy?
But if he was despised he was still powerful.

None dare openly insult him.

And, between their fear and their scorn of him, the shifts of the rabble to give vent to their contempt were often ludicrous enough.