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In former days, we used to think that Poll (Sometimes, perchance, mite Did little worse tinh show, in manner bent for folly Most in his speech: and it must confessed Polls picked up words that often That could not pose a Chesterfieldian eat, za fous domestic fowl, protesting age'nst the indignity of having their breasts felt, shriek with dismay as they are hauled out of thole baskets by prospective purch: sers, while a solemn old turkey gebbler, sporting most aristocratic wattles, with a jowl the colour of that of a three bottle man, meditates on the mutability of things. Or, perhaps, he gazes at the white body of a nephew, divested of its feathered dignity, and thinks was better looking a short while before. He did deign to give as a glance as we passed, and the impression he created was that he had something unpleasant he would like to say.
We remarked to Sapajou in our innocence, that the Chinese must be very kind to their turkeys, for everyone seemed to have been treated to an exceptionally big meal immediately before their demise.
He. remarked something under hi breath which translated meant that we were "crazy, like a fish."
Talking of fish we next visited the pork butchers, There is one Join was check by jowl with the baron and others of that kidneys marshalled in order by a fine stale wart Chinese as typical of his king as the gentleman at home who als ways weighs his thumb in when not watched. He Tooked a jovial rraseal, with the same open countens tance that betrays the successful horse dealer. But we don't like tha [ash dealers. They are much tot familiar with their finny merchant ise hooking them under a gill and weighing them on a pole. Some of them were brown, others a silver grey, some were big, others very Smnali, but the creatures we liked best were the rosy pink gentry wha pursed out their mouths as if, the rare continually saying" "Shush.# There were shellfish of all sorts of shapes and sizes, crabs that looked as though they deserved a better fate and something which looked unpleasant, but which our com anion informed us were sea-singa, Maybe! We're glad they his ae quaintances and not ours, It we were to try and give names to everything we saw in thd panese section, or even to describe hhow prettily everything was are ranged, and how spotlessly clang or if we covered the wealth of Siberian food to be found in the Russian stalls we should never finish. So we passed along to the artists who deck the vegetable stalld colourful display, brusque, hard" featured people who fix you with a glassy stare us they same thd price of their wares We had a little passage with ong such.
Noticing some mushrooms, we {nf quired: "How much?"
"Eighty cents one pound,"
"Eh?" and we capped our hang over our car as if we were deaf, "Eighty cents one pound'. You tord me foist time." The accent was nether Oxford nor Cambridge, But we had our revenge off Pointing to a stack of brown hairy globes, he asked "Are those We admitted that they were. bought two for him, as he had never tasted therm, and later initiate ced him into the delights. of tha Tiquid they contain, "What is ad asked as operator there who is an artist at his profession, a humourist even, for we saw him meditatively "dejeapitating, a dend pig, cigarette lhanging on his lower lip, and chanting a little refrain, It must have been comic, for when the head was eventually thrown on the stall there was a smile on its face. The pig section is not engaging, because everything of a pig is used auf the sight is not too elegant. We did Took round for the silk purse department, but that must have been on another floor.
The orders of chivalry in the beef [section were fully represented. Sir-
"That is milk," was our illuminate ing reply. 1 And now he thinks he know where cocon Butter comes trem.
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