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Tevye Strikes It Rich, pp. 1-20

• Tevye is impoverished until one day on his way home from work he discovers two women who are lost in the forest.

• Tevye gives the women a ride to their dacha where people are happy to see them, and they give Tevye lots of food and cash as a reward.

• The rich Jew also promises Tevye a milk cow for a reward.

• Tevye returns home to his wife Golde and their children and find that he has 37 rubles.

• Tevye and Golde contemplate many ways to invest and eventually decide to buy an additional milk cow and become a dairyman, selling goods to the rich Jews in their summer dachas.

Tevye Blows a Small Fortune, pp. 20-35

• After Tevye makes money as a dairyman, people pay attention and treat him differently.

• He meets his cousin named Menachem Mendl in Yehupetz and invites him...

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