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carrying their produce and settling down on a corner and stay- 

 ing there until their day's work is done ; rather more extended 

 markets in the city of Savona, on the Riviera, in Italy. Heavy 

 types of baskets are used, most of them carried on the back of 

 either the donkey or the seller, sometimes both. Frequently 

 push-carts, hand push-carts are employed. Good natured, stolid, 

 rather indifferent type of people, these Hollanders. H you don't 

 want things at their price you needn't buy them. If you don't 

 pay their price you are not likely to get them. It is different in 

 Italy. There you buy things as low as you can. They sell 

 things as high as they can. The asking price is not necessarily 

 the selling price. 



Mews in a fish market in Holland. Women of the Boer type 

 in North Holland again ; a market wagon ; women with dairy 

 products. The dairy and milk markets are separated from the 

 other type of markets. 



In Belgium the dog is one of the animals constantly used in 

 transportation, distributing milk, distributing vegetables and 

 the like. A great part of it is done by a strong type of mas- 

 tiff. They are efficient animals. In Hamburg, too, one finds the 

 dog hitched beneath the wagon. I remember walking round a 

 wagon, not noticing this, and then being hastily brought to my 

 senses when I got a little too near one of these baskets by the 

 guardian right on duty beneath the wagon. Sometimes three 

 dogs, sometimes teams of dogs are employed. 



Women in the Black Forest region of Germany sell cherries 

 in the open markets. Cherries and raspberries are grown exten- 

 sively in the forest sections and the cherries are very fine. 



I will now draw attention to a fine layout of hand carriages. 

 These are not baby carriages. These carriages are character- 

 istic of the Black Forest region of Germany. Everything from 

 the small baby carriage type to the large push-cart type is in 

 use in bringing vegetables to and fro. Then the more well-to-do 

 have the regular market wagon with the prairie schooner type 

 of cover which drops down or can be raised up and made to 

 accommodate a considerable amount of produce. 



These markets, in Germany particularly, are very much fre- 

 quented, and market day, which comes once a week, is a gala 

 day. Everybody is on deck. 



