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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. |
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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