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to buy it from the trader, so they could preserve their fish and meat for the winter. But, do you know
what There was a shock in store for everybody! The trader didn’t have any salt, and he told us why.
MAN: His village salt mine had caved in. It had been terrible, the whole tunnel was blocked. They
didn’t even have any salt for themselves, let alone enough for trading. Now, if we only knew where we
could get some…
WOMAN: Yes, if only we knew where…
MAN: If we only knew where…
WOMAN: Just a minute.
MAN: Where’s she off to
WOMAN: Look! Why ‘scuse me, ‘scuse me, look!
MAN: Oh, that’s good stuff!
WOMAN: Yes! Oh, yes! Yes! Ooh, that’s lovely!
MAN: Well, we got the message soon enough.
WOMAN: You see the whole of the village needed salt badly.
MAN: No salt for the fish and meat surplus would mean that by next spring, there’d be nothing left to
eat.
WOMAN: It was a long hike to the cave and hard work when we got there.
MAN: But it was wonderfully clean, high-quality salt.
WOMAN: Yes, but the question was: Would we be able to sell it at a price high enough to make all that
effort worthwhile
MAN: And the answer was, could we not! Oh, ho, ho! Here they come!
WOMAN: Yes! Even at that price we could have sold 10 times as much.
MAN: So, naturally, we decided to get a whole load more of it. The trouble was, of course, we weren’t
the only people to realize that if you were onto salt, you were onto a good thing. We had company.
WOMAN: That awful Shepherd family had caught on. They were all there, digging away at our salt.
MAN: But even at 40 cents a bowl, salt was still well worth selling.
WOMAN: But the trouble was- everybody else realized it.
MAN: It soon began to look as though our whole village had turned to salt mining.
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