After a year's time the police came again, looking for the balance of the Czar's dues.

They put their seal on everything they found.

The bride was in bed with her first baby, a boy.

The circumcision was to be next day.

The police did not leave a sheet to wrap the child in when he is handed up for the operation.
Many bitter sayings came to your ears if you were a Jewish little girl in Polotzk.