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Dr Fixit (221 - 230)

 221 'hekay ehkpo'. I'd noticed that if Ma Moneyit  was telling tales, she'd end up buying on credit. If she had the cash with her, the bumble bee wasn't half as noisy and busy like her. 'Ah, Ahfeah ma. Sell me things quickly. My cool man friend has come. I need to hurry. I want to cook him a super dish before he travels back to the creek to fish. Sell me this, sell me that.' Where slow Big Mama appeared, Ma Moneyit would throw 222 herself into helping in some of the tasks. One time, she'd talk of a guy who worked on rail tracks; the next, it could be an oil merchant, the fishmonger  or she'd even give subtle details of a mugger. The war had taken so many lives and many were males who had wives. The women had returned with their progeny  and were now sole breadwinners. Many a family  was fended for by women who turned prostitutes and Ma Moneyit was one of them. The magnitude  223 of the crises was huge. Big Mama had walked round the table which had c...