Julius R. Van Millingen

Turkey / Peeps at Many Lands (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: ...mere tots can work calculations mentally in the course of their business. When they grow up to manhood many engage in window-cleaning, an occupation which has come to be a Jewish speciality, and which an Eastern servant will resent if called upon to undertake. Others go about riveting or cementing broken china, or, with a small charcoal brazier and soldering irons, as tinkers, others sell a special kind of sand for cleaning pots and pans, which they hawk about under its Latin name of arena. Some make a speciality of buying, washing, and sorting empty bottles, which they afterwards re-sell with profit, others, of course, buy up old clothes, or, with a capacious wooden box slung over their back, go about selling all those little articles which are indispensable to ladies. When called to a house they spread out all their paraphernalia, and the bargaining, which Easterners take such a delight in...

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783956766879
• Artikelnr.: 42133306