He was dressed normally, but the practiced eyes of the crystal merchant could see that the boy had no money to spend.
Nevertheless, the merchant decided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on.
A card hanging in the doorway announced that several languages were spoken in the shop.
The boy saw a man appear behind the counter. “I can clean up those glasses in the window, if you want,” said the boy.
“The way they look now, nobody is going to want to buy them.” The man looked at him without responding.
“In exchange, you could give me something to eat.” The man still said nothing, and the boy sensed that he was going to have to make a decision.
In his pouch, he had his jacket—he certainly wasn’t going to need it in the desert.
Taking the jacket out, he began to clean the glasses. In half an hour, he had cleaned all the glasses in the window,
and, as he was doing so, two customers had entered the shop and bought some crystal.
When he had completed the cleaning, he asked the man for something to eat. “Let’s go and have some lunch,” said the crystal merchant.
He put a sign on the door, and they went to a small café nearby.
As they sat down at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed.
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