Epping butter is the kind most esteemed in London.

Butter was also a prohibited article of luxurytheir usual breakfast consisting of mashed potatoes, or bread and milk; and my grandmother used to relate how one morning a little curly-headed thing approached her with an air of great mystery, and whispered: "What do you think we had for breakfast?"

We did so, and with complete success; we had plenty of milk, and the butter was as good as in the middle of summer, and nearly as fine a color.

Should the cheese be dry, a little butter mixed with it will be an improvement.

If the butter is salt, it may be washed before melting, when it is to be used for sweet dishes.

"I bought a bill o' goods, an' noticed that ham an' butter were up two cents a pound, an' flour four cents a sack, an' other things in proportion.

" Under May he furnishes us with a second and not less appetising menu: "Butter and sage are now the wholesome Breakfast, but fresh cheese and cream are meat for a dainty mouth; the early Peascods and Strawberries want no price with great Bellies; but the Chicken and the Duck are fatted for the Market; the sucking Rabbet is frequently taken in the Nest, and many a Gosling never lives to be a Goose.

I am feeling today as if it were no matter that the winter had been so hard; that we have no fuel but twigs; that the winter wheat was frozen; that we have eaten part of our seed potatoes and that another part of them was frost-bitten; that butter is a dollar a pound (and none to be had, even at that price, for days at a time); that wood alcohol is sixty- five cents a litre, and so on and so forth.

The fairy-butter of the Welsh is a substance found at a great depth in cavities of limestone rocks.

Salt butter was eightpence to one-and-threepence.