loaf bread " 6 " 3 "

1/8 lb. butter " 25 " 3 1/8 "

1/2 " bacon " 25 " 12 1/2 "

1/16 pk. potatoes at 60 cts. per bush 15/16 "

1/2 pt. hominy at 6 cts 3 "
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27 1/16

1/3 of total 09 1/48 cts.

To 1/3 one breakfast, July 12th (same as above, with exception of eggs
instead of bacon, and with hominy omitted),
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24 1/6

1/3 total 08 1/48 "

To rent of one room and furniture, for one night, in furnished house of
fifteen rooms at $6.00 per week for whole house 05 3/8 "
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Amount due 22 17/24 cts.

The worthy artist burst out laughing when he read this bill, and so did
I.

"You needn't laugh," said Euphemia, reddening a little. "That is exactly
what your entertainment cost, and we do not intend to take a cent more.
We get things here in such small quantities that I can tell quite easily
what a meal costs us, and I have calculated that bill very carefully."

"So I should think, madam," said the artist, "but it is not quite right.
You have charged nothing for your trouble and services."

"No," said my wife, "for I took no additional trouble to get your meals.
What I did, I should have done if you had not come. To be sure I
did spend a few minutes preparing your room. I will charge you seven
twenty-fourths of a cent for that, thus making your bill twenty-three
cents--even money."

"I cannot gainsay reasoning like yours, madam," he said, and he took
a quarter from a very fat old pocket-book, and handed it to her. She
gravely gave him two cents change, and then taking the bill, receipted
it, and handed it back to him.

We were sorry to part with our guest, for he was evidently a good
fellow. I walked with him a little way up the road, and got him to let
me copy his bill in my memorandum-book. The original, he said, he would
always keep.

A day or two after the artist's departure, we were standing on the front
piazza. We had had a late breakfast--consequent upon a long tramp the
day before--and had come out to see what sort of a day it was likely
to be. We had hardly