A 'cold water peddler' in particular is introduced like this, "On a summer day, the vendors take water from a pure fountain and sell it with white soft sugar and rice-flour dumplings for four mon (unit of currency) per bowl, or eight mon at customer's request, and more sugar is added if it is sold for twelve mon. 中でも「冷水売り」は"夏日、清冷の泉を汲み、白糖と寒さらし粉の玉を加え一椀四文で売る、求めに応じて八文、十二文で売るときは糖を多く加える也。 |