PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Quotation
The yard's table on Khlong Bang Luang, Master Wichai's pencil and the price of a boat: timber first, a hundred and twenty thousand; the engine ninety thousand, the canopy forty; labour for three men, a hundred and fifty thousand; four hundred and thirty thousand in all; add ten percent just in case; four hundred and eighty thousand, including the engine; excluding tax, write that down too; almost half a million: the big numbers, the total, including and excluding, and percent.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
Master Wichai's boatyard on Khlong Bang Luang on a Wednesday evening in March, a sheet of paper and a pencil: Jack keeps the polite word with his teacher and calls him by his title; Master Wichai speaks to Jack plainly.
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