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 thirty-seven cents a dozen. Yesterday you paid forty-one cents a dozen for the same eggs. To-morrow you may pay it again. To-day's drop in price is due to a glutted market. Those eggs are perfectly fresh, and will keep in your refrigerator for a week. Here are hams at nineteen cents a pound, ordinarily sold at twenty-two. This cut is due to the fact that our firm bought a carload direct from the packer. To-day you can buy a basket of sweet potatoes for nineteen cents. To-morrow they may be twenty or twenty-two."

Just at this moment an order boy called out: "Mrs. Blank, one quart of sweets."

"What do they cost a quart?" asked Claire.

"Ten cents," answered the clerk.

"And how much does the basket hold?"

"Five quarts."

Mrs. Larry looked startled.

"Then a customer pays ten cents for one quart, and nineteen cents for five quarts? Think of paying ten cents a quart when I could get them for four cents! I have been buying them by the quart because they don't keep well."

"Keep your sweet potatoes in a cool place and