"I don't want to be out there selling apples when people are buying pears."
The book is about a woman who sells apples to young boys and girls every day before and after school.
We also sold apples from the orchard for an extra bit of money.
Anna had been too busy to help with selling potatoes and apples this year.
And maybe someone selling apples on a stick, that kind of thing?
"With that I believed a man could work to get a job and not beg or just sell apples," he observed.
A hundred thousand football fans appeared at each home game, and female athletes had to sell apples?
You saw men standing in the streets with no job, selling apples, nothing to do.
"How can you believe old women selling apples rather than me?"
Agriculture was insufficient to support the population, but they made some money selling apples and wine.