I don’t think she need have put it so baldly as that.

* * * * *

If by some miraculous chance there should be any profits from the sale

of this book, I intend to devote them to the purchase of a cow (or hen,

if it doesn’t run to a cow), to aid the national larder. I shall call

it “the Memorial Cow,” in memory of those who have been good enough to

assist in its purchase.

Should any reader wish to have the cow (or hen) named specially after

him—or her—self this could doubtless be arranged. Particulars on

application to the publisher.

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