The store is having a sale on furniture and household items.

【item】这家商店正在减价出售家俱和家居用品。

They were offered by packages, at first of five, then of ten, until at last nobody would take less than twenty, fifty, a hundred!

人们都大量抛出。最初按票面价格五分之一减价出售，后来减为十分之一，甚至减为二十分之一，五十分之一，最后竟减为百分之一了。