Thursday, November 6, 2008

Curry and Kelly

"Wine costs me a great deal of money. How much more can you pay?"
"I have only seventy- five cenatvos left in the world."
"I could let you have a bottle of tequila."
"No, no"
"Another fifty centavos then... it will be a large bottle"
He began to scrabble in the mattress again, pulling out straw. The beggar winked at the man in drill and made the motions of drawing a cork and filling a glass.
"There," the Governor's cousin said, "take it or leave it."
"Oh, I will take it."
(110)

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