had been lost without negligence on the part of the owner. Nay, we can even trace the

spirit of trade-unionism in the express permission of the Talmud (Bab. B. 9) to tradesmen

to combine to work only one or two days in the week, so as to give sufficient

employment to every workman in a place. We close with another quotation in the same

direction, which will also serve to illustrate the peculiar mode of Rabbinical comment on

the words of Scripture: "'He doeth no evil to his neighbour'--this refers to one

tradesman not interfering with the trade of another!"