MY PEOPLE
Lissi rose from her loom and came to Lamech and his wife, and as she got near they observed that the front of the girl’s petticoat hung high and away from her clogs and grey stockings.
“Ach y fi! Take,” said Puah, “the stuffing away from your belly.”
“Indeed me,” answered Lissi, “not stuffing is here for surely. Full is my skin.”
“O you Jezebel!” Puah cried. “Tell me, you ugly creature, how with your squint you tempted Adam bach.”
“Speak of the others who have been bad with you,” said Lamech.
Lissi, her mouth expressing an unintelligible grin, her large fingers twisting and untwisting a length of yarn, stood before them mute as a sheep in the hands of the shearer.
“Indeed to goodness now,” Puah went on, “imagine you that Adam will marry you?”
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