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Charon’s Ferry Tales
By Jonathan S. Gluckman
=== Passengers ===
1. Weedle 1
2. Donnerwetter 5
3. Lightfoot 9
4. Mallflower 13
5. Cado 16
6. Milton 20
7. Nestor 23
8. Zoltaine 28
Said one—“Folks of a surly Tapster tell,
And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell;
They talk of some strict Testing of us--Pish!
He’s a good fellow, and ‘twill all be well.”
-- The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
In memory of the family ferryman, my maternal grandfather’s
maternal grandfather, Mathias Binshtok, who must have heard many
stories while poling Poles across the Vistula.
© 2015 Jonathan S. Gluckman
