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The wooden butter-prints were of many devices, but the 

 subjects most often repeated were a cow, with or without 

 ornamental accessories, a rose or a forget-me-not, a sheaf of 





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Butter-Prints 



corn or a twig of apples. The small prints, six on one block 

 in the illustration, are beautifully cut, and are more than 

 two hundred years old. 



The fine old shovel-shaped butter-scoop is of a pattern 

 stdl in use. The wooden spoon is perhaps a hundred years 

 old. It is beautifully made and finished, and has been care- 



Butter Scoop and Wooden Spoon 



fully preserved ; it probably came out of some good house, 

 where it may have been used by the ladies of the family in 

 the still-room, according to the good old fashion of our great- 



great-grandmothers. 



In old days taps for barrels, then called spigots, were 



