22 English

The fair.  Rosario and Carme went down to the town the day before yesterday.  It was fair day which is held every Thursday.  They went right away  to the women's fair since they had to buy garlic, a braid of onions, a cabbage for soup, some cheese  and other little things.  Since the eggs were cheap, they bought four dozen and  a brood of chickens for forty nine pesos.

At that time they saw Mingos de Xan come  through the square. He had come to sell a seven month old veal.  Rosario asked him how it went. He said not very well because the veal merchants made an agreement and you had to sell for what they said.  They made him lose five thousand reales.  He also said that he wanted to go through the pig's fair, since he needed a piglet and some suckling pigs to fatten up for slaughter.  Now he was the one to complain that they wouldn't lower the price by a peso and that you had to deal with what they were asking. At the end of the fair, they would come to him.

Toward twelve o'clock they found Marica do Xurxo who had a half dozen of rabbits in a basket, three roosters and a roll of butter, all mixed up.  A mutt dog  was spying on the animals.  With pain in her heart she saw how the woman who sold  turnip greens and kale, was getting ready to dispose of the lot.  Cursed be the one who made her!

Since they had already bought all the items they went up to the  cow  fair. It wasn't bad.  The milk cows and the work cows were selling well.  On the other hand,  calves and  heifers were cheap.  Nobody was looking at the oxen. The beasts of burden fair was in a corner next to the river   where there were only colts and horses.  The mules were sold up during the first moments of the fair to the dealers from Carballo.

Carme was tired from so much excitement from seeing new things  and said that she was ready to eat a serving of octopus with a liter of wine or half a liter of caña  for breakfast,  even though she would go home drunk and her parents would holler at her.  Carme  is impulsive at times.