ABSTRACT
It was market day, or rather, the day of the fair in the township of Iksiniszki, a Lithuanian hamlet. There were forty fairs a year in this hamlet at which there gathered the villagers and farmers, the nobles and landowners and the Jewish inhabitants of the villages which lay at a nearer or greater distance from Iksiniszki. All these folk came to the market to sell their vegetables, horses, oxen, cattle, and to buy shoes and clothing, iron and household goods and anything else for which they had need at home or in the field.
