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MR.
SWEET POTATOES
AND OTHER STORIES
Illustrated
The Werner Company
NEW YORK AKRON, OHIO CHICAGO
1899
Copyright, 1899,
BY
THE WERNER COMPANY
MR. SWEET POTATOES.
SHETLAND WOMEN
MARDI GRAS IN NICE.
ON THE FARM IN WINTER.
A_CHINAMANS_QUEUE.
MEXICAN WATER-CARRIERS
A VERY QUEER HOUSE.
IN BELGIUM.
JOE THE CHIMPANZEE.
MARKET DAY AT PAU.
IL SANTISSIMO BAMBINO.
THE WERNER COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.
MR. SWEET POTATOES.
Our milkman has a very odd name,—translated into English it is "SweetPotatoes." His Chinese neighbors call him "Old Father Sweet Potatoes."
Some persons think him a good man; others say that he is a very badone. Just how that is I do not know—his business brings him greattemptation.
He is accused of putting water into the milk. He himself says, that heonly does it when he has not enough milk to supply all his customers;then he does not know what else he can do. When we engage