PURE COUNTRY BUTTER.
" Speaking of butter," he said, as he leaned back in his chair, " I used to have any amount of bother to find butter to my taste when I first came, to New York.
; " And it was the same with me in regard to milk," added one of the others. " When I had become completly discouraged," resumed the first. "I happened to strike a grocer who gets his butter fresh from the country twioe a week. Ah ! it would melt in your mouth. It is the only one place in the city where good butter can be had." " Yes I'veseenyou there," said the other « On street ? " " Yes ; I've bought milk there for fire years." *• Indeed ! And how came you to go there!" " Ob, the man keeps fifty cows in the suburbs and feeds 'em on distillery slops, and the doctor recommended on account of the tai nt of whisky in it! I supposed you were buying butter ror the same reason !
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4641, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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163PURE COUNTRY BUTTER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4641, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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