Buying beans

Mama has taken advice about the household diet and has decided that the family should eat more beans.

She sends Edward on his bicycle to buy beans at the market. He is fast and willing. However there is no carrier on the bicycle and Edward is not a good shopper. He buys beans which are mouldy and expensive and on the way back he falls off, loses half the beans and hurts his knee.

Next time Mama sends Edward’s little sister Mildred. She is slow but capable. She brings back 10 kg of good beans.

The family eats better for several weeks.

Mildred learns to ride Edward’s bicycle and becomes the family’s main food shopper.