Answer the following questions to write a paragraph on 'A Street Hawker'.
(a) Who is a street hawser? (b) What does a street hawker do? (c) How does he create the attention of the customers? (d) How does he carry his articles? (e) Who are his special customers? (f) How is the life of a street hawker?
A STREET HAWKER
A street hawker is a familiar figure in towns. He is the vendor of a variety of things. He moves from street to street. He carries his things sometimes on the head, sometimes in his hands and at some other times in a small hand-cart. He sells toys, bangles, ribbons, clothing, sweets, fruits, utensils, newspapers, fancy goods and things of domestic use by bringing them up to people s doors. He is a clever fellow who knows how to run his business. He brings one kind of goods for children, another kind for women folk and yet another kind for men. He chooses things for children that will attract children and for women that will attract women. So he has to be very careful about what things to sell. As he passes along the street, he makes a peculiar cry to attract the attention of his customers. The children here and there gather around him and stop him. The hawker generally chooses an hour when the master of the family is away and the women are free from their household duties. He hopes thereby to make a good bargain. In towns everywhere we see hawkers and many of them are making good business. On the contrary, there is another kind of hawkers who buy newspapers, blank pots, old books, worn-out cloths from the houses. However, children are fond of a hawker but men do not like them. By carrying the goods for sale in his hands or over his shoulders, he moves from door to door. Sometimes, he goes from one street to another with his moving shop. A street hawker's life is not easy and comfortable but it. is father difficult and full of hardship.
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