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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 39 Manufactures and Miscreants
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Butter's had its DAY--and from this out, butter goes to the wall.

There's more money in oleomargarine than--why, you can't imagine the business we do.

I've stopped in every town from Cincinnati to Natchez; and I've sent home big orders from every one of them.' And so-forth and so-on, for ten minutes longer, in the same fervid strain.

Then New Orleans piped up and said-- Yes, it's a first-rate imitation, that's a certainty; but it ain't the only one around that's first-rate.

For instance, they make olive-oil out of cotton-seed oil, nowadays, so that you can't tell them apart.' 'Yes, that's so,' responded Cincinnati, 'and it was a tip-top business for a while.


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