This section of the Plaza is the largest, yet contains the fewest number of stalls. Those parts that are actually stalls holds animal foods, small machinery and farm tools, animal care and equipment as well as a few butchers stalls. The main attractions were the Pens.
The Pens were large fenced of squares which were backed on to each other, a proud farmer chatting with passers by. Pens held pecoris, horses, ponies, prin fauns, pigs, sheep and goats. Smaller pens held chickens, ducks, geese and so forth. Prices were haggled with the farmer or person in the pen, deals struck with handshakes and the animals marked for shipment at the end of the day. Other pens contained second hand machinery that still worked well enough to be sold. Most were ploughs and carts, those that needed to be pulled by animals.
At a corner of the market fresh fish was sold. All kinds freshly caught that morning and brought into Prime, the fish settled in a cool bed of chilled water. Those manning the covered stalls shouted and screamed for custom, so crustaceans held in tanks were grabbed and thrust towards shopping mothers.
All in all, the market was a bustling place, the racket that came from, not only the animals, but the people as well was amazing. A local and travelled farmers paradise. (
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