ABSTRACT
Reb Chaikelwas one of the inhabitants of the Ghetto in a little Russian town called Zizelick. There he was born and educated, and there, too, he married at an early age a poor girl, who presented him periodically with a boy or a girl, and was sometimes useful to him in his little grocery shop. It is but natural that Zizelick was to Reb Chaikel the dearest spot on earth, the more so since near to it there was a large farm that belonged to a rich uncle of his who lived in a splendid mansion in Odessa as an old bachelor.
