" Not one ; Rabbi Yacob Benolile, however, has several ; I will go
down to the Millah, or Jews' Quarter, and borrow them for you."

" Do so. If he has n't any Spanish or Latin books, bring any thing
that he has; Syriac, Coptic, any thing. I feel as if I could read an
Egyptian papyrus or a Runic tombstone."

The worthy representative of the two great commercial powers, Eng-
land and America, started off on his errand ; but in a moment he returned,
and putting his head in at the door, exclaimed, " Manuscritos, seiiorf"

" Certainly, manuscripts or printed books ; any thing to read," I
replied.
"Well, then, seilor, I now bethink me that I have two manuscripts" ;
and drawing aside a curtain from a dark recess, Isaac produced from a
dusty shelf a large bundle, enveloped in a fragment of an old Moorish haick.
