The Life of a Hawker

Outlines

1.                  Introduction.

2.                  A street hawker is very common in cities, villages and towns.

3.                  Different things which he sells.

4.                  Faces many questions of the people.

5.                  His tough job.

6.                  Conclusion.

A street hawker is a common sight in our towns and villages.

A street hawker goes from one street to another and from one Mohallah to another Mohallah for selling his articles or food-stuffs.

A street hawker usually comes with a basket full of articles placed on his head.

He hawks his articles. Every street hawker brings articles and eatables of different kinds. Usually in the morning, street hawker comes with vegetables and fruits in their baskets. They hawk the things and vegetables which they bring in baskets.

The people who live in villages and towns hear the calls of the street hawker earl in the morning. On hearing his voice, housewives flock around him. They take from him the things which they need. Street hawkers have to face sometime very odd customers who go on arguing(bargaining) about the prices of various commodities. Sometimes he has to bow to the customers by reducing his rates.

Then there was other street hawkers who come on bicycles loaded with clothes, utensils and other articles of daily need and consumption.

All these are, no doubt, tough jobs. He has to labor a lot in order to earn his living. His profits are very small. He is generally a poor man. His clothes are also dirty. But with this small income he makes his both ends meet. The way he lifts the heavy load on his head carries it on a bicycle is really a difficult job,

Some of the street hawkers carry on their heads very cheap things. By selling their complete stock they just earn a rupee or shows the poor condition of these street hawkers. If a hawker is a little innocent he is teased by the street urchins. These clever urchins sometimes steal away his petty articles and things while the poor fellow has to bear the loss.

On the whole, a street hawker’s condition is pitiable, because he wanders from morning till evening from place to place in order to earn his daily living. In Pakistan, the hawkers are innumerable,  because, by investing less amount of money they start this business. And Pakistan is a country one’s living with hard labour. Every individual should earn his own living instead of becoming a burden upon other. It is dignity of labour which we all should respect.