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THE EARLY DAYS OF 



Et non post multos dies, 

 valuit porculus et pin- 

 guescit, sicut oinnes 

 ilium videntes dixere. 

 " Ecce auteni, porcum 

 pulchrissimum usitatis- 

 simum-que ! 



In time the animal gets fat, and is pronounced by experts to be a 

 " useful pig," so the Jew tells his servant to sell it at market, as he 

 believes the Countryman vtfill not return to claim his property. 



His rebus cognitis, 

 senior Judceus palmas 

 suas confricans, in 

 sinu gavisus-est, ad 

 servum suum dixit - 

 que. Scio agricolam 

 nunquam venturuni 

 ad argentum redden- 

 dum. Ad emporium 

 ite, et porcum vende. 

 His jussis auditis 

 profecturus est Chris- 

 tianus. Sed interim 

 rusticus ipse veniens 

 dixit. " Ecce argen- 



As the servant is starting for the market, the Countryman appears on the ^ ... 



scene, tenders the pound and demands his porker, but the Jew in no measured tum tUUm, U a mint 

 terms demands the moneys spent on food. , 7 



porcutum meum se- 

 nior I " 



