assorted bottles; colored glass

There were only so many times Willy Crantham could get away with bottling pond water, molasses, and a bit of peppermint oil and selling it as Dr W C Höfhetter’s Curative Miracle Elixir for a half dollar a bottle before folks caught on and ran him out of town. The number of times, which he had determined through rigorous and persistent experimentation in different towns, was 24.