Letter to Pearl Dealer

Dear Sr. Perla,
Let me explain, Sir, how I almost got the better of that poor, ignorant villager.
My strategy was originally as follows:
To tell him no market existed for his type of pearl. (He's an uneducated fool so I thought I would get away with this)
To persuade him I was doing him a favor by buying it as nobody else would
To tell him how ugly it was and how it would only be of value in a museum.
To offer him only 1,000 pesos for it as he wouldn't know how much it is actually worth.
The villager, Kino, didn't fall for this and I wasn't sure if the crowd was on my side.…