Confederate Inflation


	November 14, 1863, page 736	view enlargement	back to list of illustrations

Advantages of "Famine Prices"
Sick Boy.		"I know one thing - I wish I was in Dixie,"
Nurse.		"And why do you wish you was in Dixie, you wicked boy?"
Sick Boy.		"Because I read that quinine is worth one hundred and fifty dollars an ounce there; and if it was that here you wouldn't pitch it to me so!"

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