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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. Tonight let's relax while learning a useful and delicious trade, with a reading that may or may not have been suggested by one of your fellow listeners.

I honestly can't remember, but if this was you, thank you so much.

Tonight we're reading, Fries Practical Candy Maker, comprising practical receipts for the manufacture

of fine handmade candies, especially adapted for fine retail trade, by G. V. Fry, practical candy maker, Chicago, Illinois.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1884, by G. V. Fry, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington,

printed by the press of E.J. Decker, Chicago.

Let's begin. Copyright secured. I authorize any lawyer or other person in the United States to notify me should anyone attempt to

reprint the foregoing receipts. I will pay them and all infringements will be

prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

G. V. Fry.

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