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those kinds. It was put up in splendid style, in quarter and 

 half pound packages, some of it wrapped in muslin — I 

 don't know but embroidered muslin — and some in malios:- 

 any boxes. I tasted the butter, and it was splendid butter. 

 He did not hesitate to let me taste the butter, which I 

 thought was very liberal, considering it was so costly. It 

 Avas, as I say, splendid butter, but I thought we had some- 

 times made as good butter at home as that. But never 

 mind ; I wanted to know if there was any possibility that 

 Ave could get that price for our butter. I put this question 

 to him. Said I : " Sir, I make butter, and I Avant to knoAv, 

 provided I send you my butter put up in equally good shape 

 — it shall be equally good in every respect, you to be the 

 judge, not I, — to this eighty cent butter, Avhat you can sell 

 it for?" "Oh," said he, "perhaps five cents above the 

 market price." Said I, " Hoav is that? You sell this but- 

 ter for eighty cents a pound. Understand, my butter is to 

 be equal to this in every respect, and put up in the same 

 shape, and you shall be the judge, not I. Can't you get 

 more than five cents above the market price for it? " " No." 

 " Isn't there any Avay in Avhich anybody else can get eighty 

 cents a pound for butter?" "Oh, yes. If you have got 

 infiuential friends in Boston, rich relatives, or anybody else 

 that you can get to take half of your butter, and pay eighty 

 cents a pound for it, I Avill get customers for the other half." 

 " In other Avords," said I, " if I Avill contrive to make a 

 market for my butter, then you Avill sell it for eighty cents 

 a pound?" " Exactly so," said he. 



Mr. Cheever. I w^ant to put in a demurrer there, 

 although there may be some truth in the statement. It is 

 often easier for a man belonging to a highly respected and 

 well-knoAvn fjimily to enter good society than it is for an 

 obscure man to do so ; but family connections are not abso- 

 lutely essential. In order to build up a butter trade in Bos- 

 ton, so that you Avill be able to get eighty cents a pound, 

 you must not only have your butter good, but you must be 

 Avilling to begin at five cents a pound above the market 

 price, and you must sell at that price until your customers 

 are willing to pay ten cents above the market price, Avhich 

 they Avill be by and by, if they cannot get it Avithout. They 



