As for me, I was born in Tsviatshits and my name is Mendele the Book Peddler.  Most of the year I'm on the road, traveling from one place to another, so people know me everywhere.  I ride all over Poland with a full stock of books printed in Zhitomir, and apart from that I carry prayer shawls, fringed under-garments, tassels, shofars, tefillin, amulets, mezuzas, wolf tooth charms, and sometimes you can even get brass and copper goods from me.  Truth is, since the Yiddish newspaper Kol mevasser started coming out a couple of years back, I've also taken to carrying a few issues.  But actually that's not what I'm driving at - I'm getting off the point.  I want to tell you about something else entirely.