He bates a little, but not so much as the Klings, who almost always ask twice what they are willing to take.

If you buy a few things from him, he will speak to you afterwards every time you pass his shop, asking you to walk in and sit down, or take a cup of tea; and you wonder how he can get a living where so many sell the same trifling articles.
The tailors sit at a table, not on one; and both they and the shoemakers work well and cheaply.

The barbers have plenty to do, shaving heads and cleaning ears; for which latter operation they have a great array of little tweezers, picks, and brushes.

In the outskirts of the town are scores of carpenters and blacksmiths.

The former seem chiefly to make coffins and highly painted and decorated clothes-boxes.