| All days there
is a market at Yantala. The people call it
Yantala market, it is big. At dawn the traders
come. They bring a lot of things that they will
sell. There are traders that sell lettuce,
tomatoes and all other things that come from a
vegetable garden. There are also traders that
sell ironmongery; they sell knifes, hoes and
machetes.
Today Daouda is going to Yantala market. He
wants to buy a sharp knife for harvesting
millet. He knows a trader who sells a favourable
knife, but that knife is expensive. Daouda has
not a lot of money, he will bargain.
|
Daouda |
Hello. |
|
Hama |
Hello too. |
|
Daouda |
How are you?
|
|
Hama |
Fine. Well
Daouda what do you want? |
|
Daouda |
Hama, I'm looking
for a knife. The harvest season is
coming. It has rained and the millet is
good. |
|
Hama |
Well, I have
a knife that you want to have, up on my
word. It is fixed very well. You will
quickly harvest your millet. Take it! |
|
Daouda looks
at the knife. It is real good. He says: |
|
Daouda |
Well, you're
right!. It isn't bad. How much does it
cost. |
|
Hama |
It isn't
bad? This knife is the best. I sell it
to you for 100 Francs, because you are
my friend. |
|
Daouda |
Is that so?
It is expensive. Listen, lower the
price. |
|
Hama |
It isn't
expensive. Well I'll take of 5 Francs.
|
|
Daouda |
What a
profit! Lower your price. I will look
for it at yonder place. |
|
Hama |
Come! How
much money do you have? |
|
Daouda |
Seventy
Francs. |
|
Hama |
Is that so?
It is not true! You will kill me. O.K.,
a agree because your my friend. |
Daouda is
going home. He has no money but he has his
own knife.
Questions:
a) What does
Daouda want to buy?
b) For how
much did Hama sell it to him? |
