"Be" & We in Bahrain

Bahrain is a prosperous little island country in the Gulf region.  It serves as the setting for our memory trip through the pronoun "We" and 10 verbs (one for each standard measure) all starting with the Arabic letter Be.

This is the story of a day in the life of an interesting Craftsman and Merchant in Bahrain(1).  He is a skilled potter who sits at his wheel(2) all day making clay pots and bowls.  But he doesn't just sell pottery to passerby's.  He's also gotten into the fish business with the help his trusty horse.  Every morning, he takes his horse down to the wharf to pick up some of the morning catch to sell.  Today, he got a good deal on Hammerhead shark meat, and we join him to try to help him sell his goods.

As lunch rolls around, the we notice the Craftsman is running low on fresh greens, but he has a surplus of Hammerhead that he hasn't sold.  The horse is neighing admiringly at a new bowl that has been freshly baked in the sun.

I.  We decide that we will sell (I) the horse some Hammerhead meat in the bowl he likes, so

II. We take the meat out of the cooler where we refrigerated (II) it.

III.  The horse takes one look and rejects it, but then we rush (III) to cover it with green seaweed to make it more appealing to him.

IV.  The horse however terries (IV) while eating his food slowly and carefully and manages to only eat a little of the meat while picking the seaweed off of it.

V.  When we take the bowl from him, we find that most of the meat remains (V) left over in the bowl.

VI.  Since our plan has failed, we swap (VI) the greens we planned to eat ourselves with the horse for his left over meat.

VII.  Then we stretch out (VII) in the sun to enjoy our lunch,

VIII.  and we begin (VIII) picking over the fish.

IX.  As we do this we see that we have whitened (IX) the fish with horse slobber by offering it to the horse first.

X.  In disgust, we quickly rid ourselves of (X) of the vile meal, and decided to skip lunch today.