© 1996 William R. Stein
The man sitting down is Babbanballa, one of my best friends (unfortunately now deceased) and one of the harder workers in the village. Unlike the other gardeners I worked with, he did not own land in the low-lying valley away from the village. Instead he had to dig ten-meter wells through a layer of hard rock to get down to the water table, and then he had to pull the water up twice as far as the others to irrigate his crops. All of this he did by hand.
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