Show TAKE PLEASURE IN HAGGLING Tibetans Will Not Be Denied the Joys That Accrue From the Sense y J of Bargaining Mornin time bargain time calls out one one of the peddlers by the wayside wayside way way- wayside side in Tibet cheerfully as he sees you returning from a glimpse of ot the snows at sunrise You bid him come cometo cometo cometo to you and from one of the innumerable innumerable innumerable able pockets concealed in his voluminous voluminous voluminous volu volu- minous robe he will produce a perfect little Jade cup or a Tibetan coffee coffeepot coffeepot coffeepot pot or gold copper and precious stones or perhaps a huge lump of rough turquoise hewn to look like a couch with a tiny gold Buddha reclinIng reclining reclining ing on it Then comes the bargaining in which he and all his friends take part against yo your your r single self It can all be done by signs and smiles and patience and in the long longrun longrun longrun run you will get some things well wen worth having at a very reasonable price But you must have bave no false pride about bargaining It is an elementary part of these peoples people's nature and the Joy foy of selling will leave them forever when the day of haggling is done |