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WIFE
(scornfully ) Your company can turn anybody mad!
THE THREE LADIES Will you put that cloth to auction ?
SOM
(just for a joke ) Why not! start bidding!
RICH MERCHANT'S WIFE A thousand suvarnas !
MINISTER'S WIFE Two thousand !
KING'S WIFE
Three thousand !
RICH MERCHANT'S WIFE
Ten thousand !
MINISTER'S WIFE
Twenty thousand !
KING'S WIFE Thirty thousand !
WIFE
(laughs hysterically) Brother Söm! don't forget. Half and half ! half and half!
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