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 ordinary market basket from any of our open markets at ten cents."

"Then the delivery is extra and cuts into the saving on prices?"

"Not enough to notice if you buy in good quantities. Now figure this up for yourself. What are you paying for potatoes?"

"Twenty-five cents a basket."

"How big a basket; how many pounds?"

Mrs. Larry stared.

"Pounds?—I never weighed them."

"But that's the only honest way to sell potatoes. Big potatoes leave huge air holes in the basket that weigh nothing. Well, here are seven pounds for ten cents. The same quantity by measure would cost you at least fifteen cents. This head of cabbage at six cents would cost ten in your store; six bunches of beets here for ten cents, two bunches in your store. Two quarts of onions five cents, ten in your store. Three fine rutabagas for eight cents; I paid eight cents for one like these down-town. You can afford ten cents for delivery on a list like that."

"I would save about thirty cents. Ten cents