[Life On The Mississippi by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookLife On The Mississippi CHAPTER 39 Manufactures and Miscreants 8/14
Brisk men, energetic of movement and speech; the dollar their god, how to get it their religion. 'Now as to this article,' said Cincinnati, slashing into the ostensible butter and holding forward a slab of it on his knife-blade, 'it's from our house; look at it--smell of it--taste it.
Put any test on it you want to.
Take your own time--no hurry--make it thorough.
There now--what do you say? butter, ain't it.
Not by a thundering sight--it's oleomargarine! Yes, sir, that's what it is--oleomargarine.
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