As his friend is “mourning the bees,” a man with this profession relays a folk tale about a bee that refuses midges’ demands to kill Jesus Christ. In a short story cycle including “The Road to Brody,” Afonka Bida shares this profession with a bespectacled narrator who tells a suicidal old woman to roast the bird he knelt on in her backyard. At a chateau, a character with this profession takes out the eyes of a portrait depicting a woman with a (*) mustache. (-5[1])The Jewish Kiril Lyutov, who has this profession, narrates “My First Goose” and other stories in a cycle by Isaac Babel. In another short story, a prostitute hides in a bell tower after stabbing a member of this profession with a cheese knife. For 10 points, name this profession held by the effeminate Prussian “Mademoiselle Fifi.” ■END■ (0[3])