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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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