Show TAKE PLEAS PLEASURE RE N IN HAGGLING t Tibetans Will Not Be Delie Denied the the Joys That Accrue From the the Sense Sense I e of Bargaining I Mornin time bargain time calls out oat one of ot the peddlers by the wayside wayside wayside way way- way way- side in Tibet cheerfully as he sees sees' you returning from a glimpse of the snows at sunrise sunrise You bid him come cometo come com cometo to you and from one of the innumerable innumerable innumerable able pockets concealed in his volu voluminous mino minous s robe he will produce a perfect little Jade cup or a Tibetan coffee coffeepot coffeepot pot or gold copper and precious stones or perhaps a huge lump of rough turquoise hewn to to look lik like a couch with a tiny gold Buddha reclining reclinIng reclining ing on it ft Then comes the bargaining in which he and andall all his friends take p part rt against your single self self 1 I 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 worth having at t a very reasonable le price I But you must have no false pride about bargaining It is an element elementary rY part Jart of these peoples people's nature and th the Joy of ot selling will leave them forever when the day of hagg n is done |