216 FIVE AGUES TOO MUCH. 



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CHAPTER XYI. 



BUTTER-MAKING. SEEDS AND THE DEVIL. 



HERE is one advantage about the country that 

 gives it a great superiority over the town. In 

 it you have every thing so fresh fresh vegetables, 

 fresh milk, fresh eggs, fresh poultry, and fresh but 

 ter. You always feel sure that nothing is old or 

 stale. We had not yet tried making butter, but the 

 other articles we had enjoyed in their pristine excel 

 lence, although some ignorant visitors from the city 

 pretended that all of those which were sold in the 

 Flushing stores were brought from the New York 

 markets. I had been accustomed to buying butter 

 in the village, but the Flushing farmers do not seem 

 to have the knack of making fresh butter. My pur 

 chases had not been altogether satisfactory, and oc 

 casionally I obtained a rancid conglomeration of 

 fatty matter that was far from inviting. When more 

 than ordinarily disgusted, I had brought a supply 

 home from Fulton Market, where it w^as to be had 

 both better and cheaper ; but as my friends, who met 



