Summary

Chapter 6 is titled "What'll You Give Me?" The group stays in the woods and Anna thinks about how she and the Swallow Man might have talked to "an affable stranger" (158), but keep to themselves. Anna is growing up and is noticing changes in her body as she starts to go through puberty. The men are respectful of the privacy that she now wants. One day while Anna is squatting in the brush, she meets a Peddler. He believes that she is alone and she tells him that her friends are nearby. He does not believe her. She calls for Reb Hirschl and he arrives, followed by the Swallow Man. The Peddler comments on her being with two Jews.

The Peddler offers to trade them for something in his pack and the Swallow Man explains that he only wants news about what is happening in...