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buyer in Vermont. I called at one house, examined their 

 butter, found it nice and bought it for forty cents a pound. 

 I then drove to the next house, examined theirs and offered 

 them thirty. They asked if I had bought Mr. C.'s and 

 what I paid. I told them, and said that Mr. C.'s ])utter 

 was very much nicer than theirs. The man then commenced 

 abusing his wife for the poor quality. I stopped him and 

 told him that there were many things required to make good 

 butter. First, it required good cows. He said, " I have as 

 good cows us Mr. C." Then I told him it required good feed 

 and care. lie said, "My cows are as well fed and cared for as 

 his." I then said it required a good butter-maker, calculat- 

 ins that I w^ould next come to what I considered the main 

 cause. He again commenced abusing his wife, making her 

 feel badly, and, being an excellent, hard-working woman, I 

 could but feel for her, and I again stopped him and told him 

 that there was one more very important thing to have, and 

 that was a suitable place to keep the milk and butter in. 

 He said, " I know that Mr. C. has a much better milk-room 

 than I have, but I had thought mine would do until I was 

 able to build better." I proposed looking at his milk-room. 

 We did so, and I saw that there w^as not a single conveni- 

 ence, nor was there a proper place for doing any part of the 

 work. I gave him a Scotch blessing for abusing his wife, and 

 he took it kindly. I then showed him how he could easily 

 and cheaply make suitable changes, bought his butter for 

 the thirty cents and left. The next year I was over the 

 same ground again, called first on Mr. C, then went to this 

 house and found some fine butter and everything nice and 

 convenient. I told him that I had bought Mr. C.'s butter 

 and would give him the same price on one condition, and 

 that was that he should first ask his wife's pardon for the 

 way he treated her the year before. He said he thought 

 that was pretty tough, but he guessed he ought to do it, and 

 he did. 



He then said he would not have believed that a good place in 

 which to make it could make so much difi*erence wath the qual- 

 ity of the butter, if he had not tried it. He said it had also 

 made as much difierence in the work of his wife. I have occu- 

 pied your time telling this, believing that in this way I could 



