What right has any soap maker to flaunt his wares in my face, whether I'm interested in them or not?"
The cobbler's wife felt much disgusted at seeing her wares treated like this, but she dared not speak.
So the poor milliner's wares, although beautified by lace and ribbons, are worthless unless you are perched upon them."
Leaving home, he found, in a venture at "Yankee notion-pedling," that glibness meant three hundred per cent, in disposing of flimsy wares.
Hither we came from Liburnia to escape the unrighteous Cyclopes; for they robbed us, peaceful merchants, of our hard-earned wares and wealth.
Observing how the merchants exhibited and drew attention to their wares, they acted in a similar fashion to force themselves into notice like the others.
At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.
By ten o'clock, when the crowds have dispersed and the purchasers have all gone home and gone to bed, the busy booth-keepers take down their stalls, pack up their wares, and disappear, leaving no trace of the night's gayeties to greet the morning sun.
Here the gardeners make lively sales, as the displays are often fine in themselves, and show to a special advantage in the flaring torchlight. The eager venders, who do all they can to call the attention of the crowd to their wares, make many good bargains.