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peppermint, cayenne, checkerberry, and the 

 rest, came always in paper of a certain color. 

 Can I be wrong in my recollection of the 

 sassafras tint? I would soon find out if I 

 could go into the old store. I would lay five 

 cents upon the counter (the price used to be 

 less than that, but it may have gone up since 

 my last purchase), and say, " A roll of sassa- 

 fras lossengers." And I miss my guess, or 

 the wrapper would be yellow. 1 



1 How fallible a thing is a man's memory ! The wrap- 

 per was not yellow, but green. Yellow was for lemon. 

 So more than one friendly correspondent has made haste 

 to inform me, and the venerable shopkeeper himself has 

 sent me a roll of the " lossengers " to prove it. My com- 

 pliments to him. 



