richard hurried past , not wishing to find out what a hand of glory was , nor how it worked ; he passed a stall selling glittering gold and silver jewelry , another selling jewelry made from what looked like the valves and wires of antique radios ; there were stalls that sold every manner of book and magazine ; others that sold clothes-old clothes patched , and mended , and made strange ; several tattooists ; something that he was almost certain was a small slave market ( he kept well clear of this ) ; a dentist 's chair , with a hand-operated manual drill , with a line of miserable people standing beside it , waiting to have their teeth pulled or filled by a young man who seemed to be having altogether too good a time ; a bent old man selling unlikely things that might have been hats and might have been modern art ; something that looked very much like a portable shower facility ; even a blacksmith 's ... and every few stalls there would be somebody selling food .