Chapter 6

advocating a new Anti-Adulteration Act. Few M.P.'s present, most of them drowsing_.

_Sagacious Legislator_. As I was saying, Sir, the adulteration of Butter has been pushed to such abominable lengths that no British Workman knows whether what he is eating is the product of the Cow or of the Thames mud-banks. (_A snigger._) Talk of a Free Breakfast Table! I would free the Briton's Breakfast Table from the unwholesome incubus of Adulteration. At any rate, if the customer chooses to purchase butter which is _not_ butter, he shall do it knowingly, with his eyes open. (_Feeble "Hear, hear!"_) Under this Act anything which is not absolutely unsophisticated milk-made Butter must be plainly marked, and openly vended as Adipocerene!

[_Amidst considerable applause the Act is passed._