IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE

Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife,and his six children in a one-room hut.Because they were so crowded, thechildren often fought and the man and his wife argued. When the poor manwas unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help.As hefollows the Rabbi's unlikely advice, the poor man's life goes from bad toworse, with increasingly uproarious results. In his little hut, sillycalamity follows foolish catastrophe, all memorably depicted in full-colorillustrations that are both funnier and lovelier than any thisdistinguished artist has done in the past.