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A
conversation with a vegetable seller
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A CONVERSATION WITH A VEGETABLE SELLER
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A conversation
about buying vegetables from a traditional vegetable seller. The names
of popular Kashmir vegetables are introduced.
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Vegetable seller:
What would you like, sir?
Ashok: Are
there any fresh vegetables?
Vegetable seller:
Everything is fresh. The spinach and potatoes have just arrived. The radishes,
eggplants, and cucumbers are also fresh.
Ashok: What
is the price of spinach and potatoes?
Vegetable seller:
Spinach is one rupee a kilo. Potatoes are one rupee and fifty paise a kilo.
Ashok: How
much are radishes and eggplants?
Vegetable seller:
A bunch of radishes is ten paise, and each eggplant is six paise.
Ashok: Are
cucumbers also sold by the kilo?
Vegetable seller:
No, sir, cucumbers are twenty paise each.
Ashok: All
right, give me one kilo of potatoes, two kilos of spinach, and four bunches
of radishes.
Vegetable seller:
All right, (will there be) anything else?
Ashok: No,
here is your money.
Vegetable seller:
Thank you.
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Chapter
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