the bird in the straw basket is a goose; the man behind the counter is using an abacus to calculate the price of the sausage the customer in front of the counter is interested in purchasing
Note
Transcribed caption: meat market on a city street
Translation of Chinese characters: 茂森 name of the butcher's shop
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