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Tcheshin and their pockets were bulging with rubles. Leiby
scurried back and forth, lling the bottles again and again.

“Vatzlav, who’s this boy?” they asked the barman.

“He’s Vizniak’s farubak, he’s come to work for me.”

“Eh, you did good that you left Vizniak, he would have worked
you to death and then sent you o emptyhanded,” the half-
drunk farmers roared and clapped Leiby on the back. “He’s as
cruel as they come. He got Jews to work for him, promising
that he’d take care of them. He worked them to the ground and
in the end he went and tipped o the Germans about them.”

Chapter 36One of the farmers, already totally inebriated, shook Leiby’s

shoulders hard, and a cup fell o his tray and shattered on the
oor. “ ey deserved it, they were dirty Jews, but you’re a good

Polish lad. ere’s no reason that you should tolerate Vizniak’s
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