They were two brothers who were very attached to each other from youth. They were horse dealers.

Two other brothers: Leibe and Shimshon inherited a big house on the left of the Market. After their father’s death, while still in the shiva mourning days, they fought each other on the big veranda of their house till the whole community gathered there. The brothers could not understand why Hirsh, the mason, with his sons, started after the shiva to break walls, repaint the house on the market place for two separate families, with a separate veranda. They could not understand why two rich brothers fought each other to the point that the community called the uradnik to separate them. This spectacle continued daily.

Khatche and Hetche decided to intervene. They climbed the veranda and started to dance a Hassidic dance. The more the rich brothers fought each other, the more excited was the dance.

The crowd around the place increased in number. The uradnik, [village policeman, constable] Martzinkevich could not hold back his laughter. Finally, the Prisov himself had to intervene to stop this daily “routine”.

Non-Jews and gypsies respected Khatche and Hetche. Non-Jews loved them in the horse-market.

There was an orphan, Kalman, who was seen walking about in the market place looking at the horse. The two brothers had an idea to keep him off the street by making him their helper, attending to the horses. Gradually, helping around in the house as well, Kalman became one of the family.