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Again I foundhow the ht that Old Brownsmith would be sure to be cheated; but Ike looked

quite easy, and instead of there being so s in the market that

ours would not sell, I found that the rew less in nulanced round once or twice on that busy surasp packed with carts, and to these a regular

throng ofbaskets, while every here and there barrows

were being piled up with flowers

All about us too, as far as I could see by cli away as they sold the contents of

other carts, whose baskets were being handed down to the hungry crowds,

ere pushing and struggling andway for the porters with the

heavy baskets on their heads

By degrees I began to understand that all this enorreengrocers and

barrow-dealers fro

off east, west, north, and south, to their shops and places of business

I should have liked to sit perched up there and watching all that went

on, but I had toback the baskets; then I had to

help handing out bunches, till at last the crowd melted away, and the

busy ," he shouted to Ike; and then cli down he