Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-05-26
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Sal layton's Apple Cut.

uays, ike tley dlu twenty years or SO
ago, said the Sheriff, as he peeled a
big greening with his jack-knife and
threw the peeling on the stove. 49,.
Apple-cuts, said Uncle Ira, They
don't nave apple-cuts nor anything
else sensible these days. If the young
fellows that runs things now can only
cock a fur cap Oh their heads and get a
suit Of plaid clothes, they're happy,
and don't care for such things as ap-
ple-cuts. Unless it's the juice of the
apple, continued Uncle Ira, after a
pause. And that cuts some of EN- up
pretty pad, oftener than's good for
'em.'
we usty have bully good times to
them apple-cuts, Sheriff, said the old
Squire. Dance all night, sure, and
half the next day if the fiddler held
out
4 guess l never told you about Sal
Layton's apple-cut, did II asked the
Sheriff, dropping the core Of his apple
in thesieepy dog Casar's ear.
'Humph!' grunted Uncle Ira.
Heard you tell it more'n a hundred
times, and you've told it so much that
I'm blamed if l don't think you be-
lieve it yourself
THAT story's cast-iron fact said
the Sheriff, and too good to be lost.
Ill tell it again.
If there wasn't snap in the boys of
twenty y-fve years ago, this court don't
know ITSELF the Sheriff went on. we
never calculated to get left when there
was any fun going on, and if we did
you can make up your mind that on.
that day tie thermometer was very
low. We were always ready for
fight or dance or singing school,
and came out particular strong on
protracted meetings. There was
dance about every night from the
time cold weather set in until the canal
opened In the spring, and we used to
make the Pike county woods just
howl. There was family named Lay
ton lived up IN the hills back of Lacka-
wack. The old man had pried piece
of ground out from under the stones
that protected the soil In that garden
spot of the township, and stuck shan
ty in one corner of it. The house was
founded on a rock. That rock, | be-
lieve as much as can be, had an ou;.
cropping i'll China Owing to this rock,
Layton had to build his cellar about
forty rods away, by scooping hole in
a side hill and putting door Of hem
lock slabs to it.
Sal Layton was nice girl. She was
the old mans only daughter, and
could cook slapjack or butcher a pig
with skill and grace. Sal had big
gawk of fellow by the name of Rube
Calkins. He was terribly mussy-one
of these lick-my -weight-in. wild cats
sort of fellows who always want to
clean out bar-rooms whenever they get
outside of three drinks of court week
whisky. had side partner named
Reeves-Sid Reeves He was team.
He never walked his shoes off to get
where there was fight, but il he
thought one would be likely to come
his way he'd walt al! day for it.
There was ball at the Narrows one
night. Sal vas there with Rube, and
Sid and / had our girls. Rube primed
himself with the best the bar afforded.
and, as usual, swore he would never
be happy until he had cleaned out
every man in the bar room. Well. the
upshot of it was that Sid had to drop
him out of the window. This made q
little hard feeling between Rube and
Sid, and when Sal made up her mind
to give an apple-cut, few weeks af.
terward, Sid didn't get any invite, aud
neither did l.
Sal had been dying to give an ap.
ple-cut for long time, but the trouble
was, the only orchard on the old mans
place was wild gooseberry bush, and
there were no apples in the old mans
cellar. He raised some potatoes and