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CHAPTER XXIIMEALS AND SUPPLIESTHERE isnothing that demands more carefulattention than the purchase of chops. It needsmore than that : it needs close personal supervision.There are certain loose sellers of chopswho, if not watched, will cheerfully hack them offalmost any part of the beast that happens to beuppermost, and call by this special designationfragments of any shape or size. But it is notenough to see for yourself the cross section fromwhich they are to be cut. Even if that looks allright and everyone knows that there isonlyone shape for a chopit may begin to lose itsstrict form after one or two have been cut away,tillprogressively deteriorating, they become,before your two pounds are completed, absolutelyshapeless. The only safe plan is to see the thingthrough. I put all this down simply to show thatI am not readily had over chops. But in one ofthe towns in my D Class there lives a butcherwho had me. I had selected my section, and he1 88