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gave him another gold piece and again sent him away.Again he met Solomon who advised him to insist on hisrights. Then David, finding that Solomon was advisinghim, called the latter and asked him how much he was togive to the man. Solomon replied," Do not give moneybut call the wind to justice." David then made a conjur-ation and the spirit of the wind appeared. Asked why ithad blown the poor man's flour into the sea, it replied thata ship on the high seas with many Jews on board, hadsprung a leak and was on the point of foundering. Thesack of flour would form a dough and stop the leak. Themen had vowed a third of their possessions if saved. Sixdays later the ship came into port and the travellers gavethe poor man a third of their possessions which they hadvowed as a thank- offering.

445[ Cod. G. 1060 f. 37a]. An apostate led the king tothe synagogue when the people were reading the verse inDeut.," How can one pursue a thousand and two ten thou-sand?" He told the King that the Jews were boastingthat one could kill ten thousand. The king, enraged, calledthe teacher to explain the meaning. The latter said thisreferred to those who came out of Egypt. The king thencalled the wise men and the elders and ordered them asthe descendants to prove the truth of the statement. Hegave them a year, after which they would either be killedor driven out of the country. After six months of fastingand weeping, a man came and offered to go to the Childrenof Moses beyond the river Sambatyon and bring one of themwho would prove it. They gave him money and he travelledfive months and crossed the river on the Sabbath. Thepeople there condemned him to death for breaking theSabbath; he, however, showed them the letter which hehad brought and they then sent a young girl with him,and within one day they were back in the city, thus intime. They told the king they were ready to prove thecase and asked him to bring out the army. He gatheredall the people in the field and the young girl, dressed as a