It is no doubt right enough for every one to be prudent, and buy things as low as possible; but it has never seemed to me as quite just for a rich lady to beat down a poor fish-woman, or strawberry-woman, a cent or two on a bunch or basket, when that very cent made, perhaps, one-third, or one-half of her profits.
"It was only yesterday that I stopped at a house to sell a bunch of fish.

The lady took a fancy to a nice bunch of small rock, for which I asked her twenty cents.

They had cost me just sixteen cents.
'Won't you take three fips ?' she asked.

'That leaves me too small a profit, madam,' I replied.

'You want too much profit,' she returned; 'I saw just such a bunch of fish in market yesterday for three fips.' 'Yes, but remember,' I replied, 'that here are the fish at your door.