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On one occasion the town well knew they lured a Jew up the stairs,
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pounced on him, all three, held him up by the heels,
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shook everything out of his pants pockets and threw him out of the window.
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Neither did they have respect for women who, although not their colleagues so to speak,
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nevertheless deceived their husbands regularly or irregularly. It made no difference.
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Sugar-coated whores they called them, and did not yearn to be in their shoes.
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Their only respect was for what they would have described as good Christian colored women,
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the woman whose reputation was spotless and who tended to her family,
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who didn't drink or smoke or run around.
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These women had their undying, if covert, affection.
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They would sleep with their husbands and take their money,
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but always with a vengeance.