these houses due to the cooling effect provided vincent rebello a neighbour of ferrao gets nostalgic as he recalls fond memories of milk being sold in a steel tumbler as well as the sound of the whip slicing the air the whips were used to discipline the cattle in those daysvincent pipes in there would be more than 2000 cattle at this fair and some cows had their horns painted in colours these were brought in a pickup from as far as belagavi in the neighbouring state of karnataka these outstation traders would arrive two days prior to the fair and halt for the entire period of 10 days at the fair or till their cattle were sold they would cook at the site and sell their animals at discounted ratesrebello further adds cattle were brought from benaulim colva utorda and majorda and we would watch them from our stalls at the navelim church feast fair there would also be game stalls and various others entertainment options the icegolas and limbusoda hand carts were our favorites of course there also were the chorispao and liquor stalls some of the cattle traders would even go doortodoor to every house in the village asking if the villagers were interested in buying their cattle they would collect water from neighboring houses and the villagers would keep buckets full of water especially meant to feed the thirsty animals but this has all declined now with greenery vanishing all over navelim village and quickly being replaced by the construction boom