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not love those who are useless to them, who 

 live on them as parasites, and yet, though 

 parasites, despise and hold aloof from those 

 they prey on. 



But let me leave the Jew. He is too 

 serious a subject for my pen, and I own, in all 

 honesty, I am no fair judge of him or his 

 doings, the mere sight of him putting up my 

 hackles almost as much as the sight of a cat 

 puts up those of a fox terrier. I don't know 

 why it is, but I fancy it is because he won't 

 cut his hair, and has a predilection, though of 

 the masculine gender, for wearing ringlets 

 and petticoats. 



In Oswiecin there is a fine, broad stream 

 full of trout and salmon, so the natives say, 

 which might perhaps be worth a visit to some 

 of those who cannot now afford a fishing; in 

 Scotland or even a river in Norway ; and 

 should the angler be by chance an antiquarian 

 also, he will find matter for investigation in 



