Around 1860, a French singer named Mademoiselle Zélie went on a world tour with her brother and two other singers. At a stop on a small island in the South Pacific, where most people didn't use money, the singers agreed to sell tickets in exchange for whatever goods the islanders could provide.
The show was a hit. A local chief attended. They sold 816 tickets. Zélie sang five songs from popular operas of the day. In a letter to her aunt, Zélie cataloged her pay for the show: "3 pigs, 23 turkeys, 44 hens, 5000 coconuts, 1200 pineapples, 120 bushels of bananas, 120 pumpkins, 1500 oranges." But the windfall, Zélie wrote, left her with a problem.
"What to do with these proceeds?"
"I am told that a speculator from a nearby island... Will arrive tomorrow to make cash offers to me and my comrades. in the meantime, to keep our pigs alive, we feed them the pumpkins while the turkeys and chickens eat the bananas and oranges."
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The show was a hit. A local chief attended. They sold 816 tickets. Zélie sang five songs from popular operas of the day. In a letter to her aunt, Zélie cataloged her pay for the show: "3 pigs, 23 turkeys, 44 hens, 5000 coconuts, 1200 pineapples, 120 bushels of bananas, 120 pumpkins, 1500 oranges." But the windfall, Zélie wrote, left her with a problem.
"What to do with these proceeds?"
"I am told that a speculator from a nearby island... Will arrive tomorrow to make cash offers to me and my comrades. in the meantime, to keep our pigs alive, we feed them the pumpkins while the turkeys and chickens eat the bananas and oranges."
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