Howard Baetzhold wrote: > > There is a discussion of what things cost during MT's boyhood > compared with some costs in Hartford in probably 1877 in Paine's _MT's > Biog.,Vol. 1, pp.7-10. Sorry time doesn't permit fuller description at this > time. That's Paine's edition of _Mark Twain's Autobiography_. Not Paine's _Mark Twain: A Biography_. Clemens, in '77, remembers chickens at ten cents apiece, contrasting with Hartford's "a dollar to a dollar and a half apiece, according to weight." thanks, larry marshburne