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От : Alexander Koryagin 2:221/360 17 апр 25 15:39:30
К : All 17 апр 25 14:41:02
Тема : Bushel
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Hi, All!
From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome
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We did our marketing after breakfast, and revictualled the boat for
three days. George said we ought to take vegetables - that it was
unhealthy not to eat vegetables. He said they were easy enough to cook,
and that he would see to that; so we got ten pounds of potatoes, a
bushel of peas, and a few cabbages. We got a beefsteak pie, a couple of
gooseberry tarts, and a leg of mutton from the hotel; and fruit, and
cakes, and bread and butter, and jam, and bacon and eggs, and other
things we foraged round about the town for.
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I accept ten pounds of potatoes, few cabbages etc. But tell me
please - what does mean a bushel of peas? AFAIR, a bushel is a volume
about 40 litres, in other words it is 4 big water pails for fire
fighting. And it was as they said for 3 days.
:-)
Bye, All!
Alexander Koryagin
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