Crossword-Solution: AVR 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

What do you think of such a shrew? How long did she stand by her mother in the market selling ribbons? She behaves just like Pessil Peise Avròhom's over her daughter, the one she married to a great man in Schtrischtch, who took her just as she was, without any dowry or anything--Jewish luck! They say she has a bad time of it--no evil eye to her days--can't get on with his children.

They still had about six hundred rubles, but, as they were without a trade, it was easy to foresee that the little stock of money would dwindle day by day till there was none of it left--and what then? The eldest son, Yossef, aged twenty-one, had gone from home a year before his father's death, to seek his fortune elsewhere; but his first letters brought no very good news, and now the second, Avròhom, a lad of eighteen, and the daughter Rochel, who was sixteen, declared their intention to start for America.

But Avròhom could not endure sitting at home any longer, where the wife screamed, the children cried, and there was a continual "fair." What should he want there? He only wished to be alone with his thoughts and imaginings, and his quiet "tunes," which were always weaving themselves inside him, and were nearly stifled.

Later on, when Avròhom has got to know the dog, he will even take him into the orchard, but the first time there is a certain risk--one has to know a dog, otherwise it barks, and Avròhom dreads a bark worse than a bite--it goes through one's head! And Avròhom waits till the owner comes out, and leads him through by the hand.

And Avròhom creeps into the fallen-in hut, where it is dark and where there are smells of another world.