It walked down the lane that led into town, each step a careful placing of small feet on the road, and it went into the market where the baker shouted, where the children chased a ball into puddles, where the woman cried in the doorway and a man whistled a tune to keep his hands busy. It began to set the jars on stalls, offering them to anyone who would take them back. “This one belongs to you,” the keeper would say, and hold out the glass.
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