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from 150 pounds down to 100 in order to escape
from serving in the Polish army.
As soon as the last lights of the city were
extinguished, the recruits felt free to gather opposite
the Bet HaMidrash HaGadol and beside the
Great Synagogue. They would hurry to commit
some mischief in the middle of the night; and
afterwards they would flee and hide because the
policeman Yesheniek was onto their tricks.
At break of dawn one might find on the door
of Dr. Greenberg, where they had sought haven
from pursuit, a sign reading: "EXPERT SHOE-
FROM DAILY LIFE 167
MAKER, accepts all kinds of orders." And the
municipality sign was hanging over a shoe store.
And at the end of this period, they found, as was
customary, that the wagon of Benche Druker was
in a hole near his house and his nag [shkape] tied
to the gate of the city jail.
But the main thing I forgot to tell about
avoiding conscription into the Polish army: release
from conscription was not necessarily won
by those who had tormented themselves, but by
the young men whose parents had paid off the
official conscription committee's doctor.