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THE MILKMAN.
“Milluk! Milluk! Milluk ho!
Quick for I can't wait,—here I go!”
Quick for I can't wait,—here I go!”
“A quart of Milk, good man, I'll take,
'Tis for my little dark-eyed daughter,—
But tell me, sir, for her sweet sake,
Ah! tell me 'tis not Milk and Water!”
'Tis for my little dark-eyed daughter,—
But tell me, sir, for her sweet sake,
Ah! tell me 'tis not Milk and Water!”
The shrill cry of the Milkman awakens many persons from their slumbers. The supply of Milk is brought principally from Orange, Rockland and Westchester counties; also, from Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut; a large proportion comes by the Erie Rail Road to Piermont, on the North River, then to the city in Steamboats. The quantity of Milk consumed in this city in one year, is estimated to be nearly twenty millions of quarts, valued at about one million of dollars.
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