Two Jews were carried away captive from Mount Carmel. The captor following them overheard one saying to the other “A she -camel has passed before us, she is blind of one eye and on one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar, and two men lead her the one an heathen and the other a Jew.” The captor said “Oh ye sons of a stiffnecked people, whence do ye know that ? ”They replied: “We recognise a she-camel by the foot-prints, the blindness because she feeds only off the grass on one side of the road, the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth, the vinegar makes bubbles, and the heathen is not so careful in his manners as the Jew. The captor ran after them and found the words true.”
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Walking farther they said: ‘‘We smell the pots boiling 400 miles off in Judaea." He replied, “you are too clever for me, your God cannot stand you and how can I?" He brought them home and his mother killed a she-lamb and placed it before them and gave them wine to drink." One said to the other "This flesh smells of the dog and the wine of the corpse." The man asked his mother if this was so and she explained that this lamb had been suckled by a bitch and the vine had grown on the grave of his father. After they had eaten the man began to dance and they said "That is an illegitimate child." He frightened his mother and she owned that she had once made a mistake with a dancer and then he came back and said unto them "Blessed is the Lord who has selected the seed of Abraham and has given them of his wisdom. Wherever you go you will be the masters of your master." And he gave them gifts and set them free and they returned to their own country.