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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 39 Manufactures and Miscreants
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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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