The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-24
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VINE though the Indians geneTally prefers
lun. Bake over a slow fire.
Ginger Snaps Take some ginger. Stir
10 a quantity of molasses and sugar. Mix
with flour. Bake until it snaps.
To Sweeten Pickles: Sprinkle sugar over
a couple OF old maids.
Sauce for Pudding: Make your. pudding
so that it will rot be lit To eat. Your hus
band will furnish the sauce. Don't let 1t
become toe peppery.
Boston Bread: Take some beans; a qua :
tity OF -four; some more beans; soue salt
q few beans. Bake in a stove or an oven.
Of puns were permissible In this depart
ment. we might throw a shadow OF gloom
over the reader by remarking that the peo-
pie take most kindly to the beans are Bos-
ton Bred.)
Onion Soup: Take a few onions Hlso a
few soup. Put the onions in the SOUP; or
it is immaterial which. Cook them. Ii too
thick. make it thinner, if too thin, make
it thicker.
Slap Jacks: Tease your Jack until he
slaps your face then slap Jack 5.
johnny Cake: Take a quart of butter and
a half pound of milk; mix. Place IN the
oven. See hat there is a fire III the oven.
When baked. give seven OF them to j ohnny.
These will be sufficient to make one STUN
my cake.
reach NlauROcS !. TOCuIc d pCCh -
peaches: set them on the dinning-room ia
Bile. When Charley returns home from
off sc, watch how readily the man goes for
them.
lash MATCH MAKING. While the and
lady was at work in New York, recently,
two old men strOlled In for reireshment.
One of them was evidently a small farmer.
He wore his hat down over his eyes, and
appeared occupied by a matter Of some
weight. Talking to him earnestly aud IN a
low tone, his companlOn, an old fellow with
a shabby hat, shiny breaches, and much
worn shoes, looked about him with cunning
eyes for the most retired nook, and pulling
out an old stool said:
sit We there, man, and vel have a pint
and a talk" .... 81.
The colorless potheen was served them,
and each drank a tumblerful OF it as it it
had been water
Now, man. said the smaller and older
of the NO., why not make a match be-
tween them? He is a smart lad, and she
is a fine girl. God bless her Just say
what will you give her, and we can have
done with it before the game is out
"Well," said the farmer, after pulling
and cracking all his fingers, 81 will give her
a cabin, a quarter acre of land, with pota-
toes tIlleU anu UTOuSuG " Vie OOOis
There was a profound silence on the other
side.
81 will give her a fine feather bed"
VERY good, very good" said he with
the cunning eyes. We'll have another
pint" They were served with the fiery
LIQUID and smacking their lips over it de-
clared it the best.
THE players must be near through"
u The farmer. staring in the bottom of its
cup, added, Il will give her fifteen pounds
in gold"
A short quick laugh from his companion
was the response That's very good, man
Her mother will give her the best of
petticoats-and that is about al"
And enough it is, if her mother would
not forget the old silver beads, so that she
can prepare her soul for Heaven when the
end comes .,.
'What, them said the other, a little
definitely, 'has your boy got?' 4
Drawing his stool closer, and fixing her
little gray eyes on the old man. he said
"Sorra a ha' penny; but he Is a good lad for
all of that, and can knock as much work
out of a day as any boy in the country, and
in a fight can bate anybody that stands tie
fore him."
1T is not fighting mar that I want for
my daughter" responded the farmer, the
testify. There's little good comes of it."
''Well, well, he need not do that same,
but he's good for it if w~antin'."
Ill stand for the money, as he's a nate,
tidy boy" The farmer was somewhat mill
fed. "Ill buy him a boat and he can knock
his living out of it."
Long life to ye! Shall it be next Thurs
day? I'll stop to night to see the priest and
have it already"
To my horror, the farmer nov called for
another pint, with which they sealed their
bargain.
4 man from the Indian Territory followed
4 horse-thief through North Louisiana,
.4Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas, then back