Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . s which interest us most as we pass,along the streets are the fish markets. The fish are allbrought to the market alive and Avriggling. When a cus-tomer comes along, he picks out the fish which he fancies inthe tank; the dealer dextrously captures him with a net>splits and beheads him in sight of the customer who goes onhis way rejoicing, knowing that at least he will have freshfish for dinner. The many little candy stands and booths for selling nutsand cakes also interest us. There is a kind
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . s which interest us most as we pass,along the streets are the fish markets. The fish are allbrought to the market alive and Avriggling. When a cus-tomer comes along, he picks out the fish which he fancies inthe tank; the dealer dextrously captures him with a net>splits and beheads him in sight of the customer who goes onhis way rejoicing, knowing that at least he will have freshfish for dinner. The many little candy stands and booths for selling nutsand cakes also interest us. There is a kind of soft yellowcake made of beans which is greatly affected by the lowerclass of Chinese, and which always has a Chinese characterstamped on the top ; there are peanut venders on whose CHEAP FOR CASH. 169 trays are arranged little piles of peanuts which, are worthone cash (one-tenth of a cent) each, while other dealersconfine their attention to betel nuts, of which they carrya stock in trade consisting of half a dozen nuts cut intoquarters, with some pungent leaves to wrap them in before ?Of*. FISHING WITH CORMORANTS. they are masticated. In other places we find row afterrow of toy shops and little earthenware establishments,where the largest thing of value will cost about one cent. In fact, it would be interesting to see how many thingson the streets of Canton could be bought for a cash. Acollection of such articles would fill a cabinet with rarecuriosities. But let not any foreigner think he could makesuch purchases. The thrifty Chinese dealer is sure that thesaid foreigners pockets are lined with gold and will chargehim at least ten times the true value of any article can only get what he wants at a reasonable price bysending a Chinaman for it and paying him a commission forbuying in the cheapest market. In the large stores the cash is not very much used, but small silver pieces, pennies and huge, dirty, ragged bank bills; but the street venders and cheap Jacks on
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