They would teach her all she needed to know about shopkeeping and running a business for herself.
en.wikipedia.org Apart from industrial labor, the villagers are also involved in activities like dairy, sheep husbandry, and shopkeeping.
en.wikipedia.org The vast majority started out in the carpentry trade, but soon moved into shopkeeping.
en.wikipedia.org Shopkeeping was thought an appropriate subject for children's books of the period and fold-out pages displayed the many products that would be found in a shop.
en.wikipedia.org Aside from shopkeeping, the "sangleys" earned their livelihood as carpenters, tailors, cobblers, locksmiths, masons, metalsmiths, weavers, bakers, carvers and other skilled craftsmen.
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