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The Mixed Economy
MAN: Do you remember that day we set out on our great journey
WOMAN: Oh, I certainly do. And all because somebody started a rumor that there was a hidden
village- where people made a kind of cloth entirely different from the sort we make.
MAN: We discovered that it was more than a rumor. There really was a hidden community, and it was
quite unlike ours. Hello there! (Echoes)
WOMAN: Hello (Echoes)
MAN: Hello there (Echoes)
WOMAN: Hello (Echoes). We had a surprise, I can tell you. They were strange.
MAN: I hope they’re going to be friendly.
WOMAN: I do, too. Look, they’re coming our way!
MAN: Just stand and smile.
WOMAN: Hello, we brought these… (Uhh, say hello.)
MAN: I’ve got one, too.
WOMAN: …to greet you, lots of you have come to greet…oh-- they’re for me
MAN: Oh, that’s nice!
WOMAN: Oh, lovely.
MAN: Oh, I get one too! Oh, look at me! I look like a…
WOMAN: You with flowers around your neck!
MAN: Lovely. But they were wonderfully friendly.
WOMAN: Would you believe it They didn’t use any wool at all to make their cloth; they used this
fiber. It grew on plants. Cotton, they called it.
MAN: The amazing thing was that their cloth-making machinery was very like ours.
WOMAN: It’s true they didn’t have such an efficient foot treadle on their spinning machine. But the
turn shuttle on their weaving machine was twice as fast as ours was. It’s amazing!
MAN: Look at that! And the finished cloth – oh, that’s really something!
WOMAN: Yeah…so we had an idea – we decided to offer to buy some of their cottonseed.
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