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cess be completed in some dry storing-place. In our 

 own experience of cider-making, the two or three 

 casks made for home consumption from carefully- 

 picked and well-kept fruit are usually of the best 

 quality, and so made we believe cider to be a most 

 agreeable and very wholesome beverage, — to para- 

 phrase Isaac Walton, only fit for farmers or very 

 honest men. As long, however, as rough people are 

 about who never know when they have had enough, 

 the rougher cider made by a ruder process is quite 

 good enough. 



It must be obvious to all that if a man can drink 

 as much as four gallons of good cider in a day's 

 mowing, he would be better off with a less quantity 

 of an inferior sort, supplemented with tea or coffee. 



