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ОглавлениеHAMBURGERS
An idea took immediate form in the unemployed man’s mind. The sombrero was still lying in the street. The mayor’s cousin had failed to pick it up. He had jumped back as if he’d been stung by a bee when he tried to pick it up.
The sombrero lay there.
Perhaps if the unemployed man picked up the sombrero and handed it to the mayor, the mayor would give him a job and he could stop eating berries and eat a lot of hamburgers instead.
He looked again at the sombrero lying in the street and his mouth started watering at the imagined taste of hamburgers with lots of onions and catsup on them.
He would not let this chance go by.
He might never be employed again if he did not pick up that sombrero and hand it to the mayor.
What was he going to do when the berry season was over?
What a terrible thought.
No more berries.
Even though he hated berries now, they were better to eat than nothing. What was he going to do when they were gone?
This sombrero lying in the street might be his last chance.
