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Market.


The market belongs to the city and Hucksters are charged by the foot front of their stalls per ___.


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the skin is used up. Every evening the peddlers are out with a new stock.

The main market is a fine, well ventilated stone structure occupying an entire square with the roof supported by arches raised in [[strikethrough]] innumerable p [[/strikethrough]] a large number of pillars. The stalls & aisles radiate from a small central railed circle where the flower dealers gather and early in the morning the display of tropical fruits is gorgeous and bewildering.

Almost every one goes to market, & licensed boys with baskets are at hand to carry home the purchases for 3 cents.

Like the street porters who are found everywhere, these boys wear a large brass plate with their number & these numbers are issued on payment of license tax by the [[?]] politics.

Occasionally a lady, usually some foreigner, takes a boy without a badge & frequently the boy & basket of supplies vanish together at some crowded place on the way home - as I knew of