The shopkeeper enjoys engaging in gossip and lighthearted banter with the other villagers. Muni uses his knowledge of the shopkeeper’s dislike of the village’s itinerant postman, who cheated the shopkeeper, to attempt to manipulate the shopkeeper into giving him food on credit. The shopkeeper, however, is not fooled by this ploy and pulls out a ledger documenting Muni’s past fiscal indiscretions. He then humiliates Muni in front of the other villagers and declares him to be an old liar.
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The shopman had said that he was seventy. At seventy, one only waited to be summoned by God. When he was dead what would his wife do? They had lived in each other’s company since they were children… He had thrashed her only a few times in their career, and later she had the upper hand… He avoided looking at anyone [in the village; they all professed to be so high up, and everyone else in the village had more money than he. “I am the poorest fellow in our caste and no wonder that they spurn me, but I won’t look at them either.”
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The Shopkeeper Quotes in A Horse and Two Goats
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The shopman had said that he was seventy. At seventy, one only waited to be summoned by God. When he was dead what would his wife do? They had lived in each other’s company since they were children… He had thrashed her only a few times in their career, and later she had the upper hand… He avoided looking at anyone [in the village; they all professed to be so high up, and everyone else in the village had more money than he. “I am the poorest fellow in our caste and no wonder that they spurn me, but I won’t look at them either.”
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