The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-24
STICKY.
How Us Children Made Molasses Candy
 What Mamma Says.

How Us Children Made Molasses Candy What Mamma Says. | ''We wanted to make some molasses candy. Mamma didn't like to let us, for Bridget was out, and there was no one to see to us, so she was afraid we'd burn ourselves; but we coaxed, and she says she hates to say no to us little | ones.
 'She told me to take saucepan and fill it half full of molasses I thought it ought to be fuller than that, so put it almost full.
 Papa had given us ten cents to buy some peanuts to put in the candy; so 1 put the molasses on the stove, and we all sat down to shell the peanuts
 "When we were most done, I heard some thing go siz-z-z-z, Uery tosid, and we all jumped up, and it was the mo- lasses boiling over. It was all over the stove. I was scared, but I took the long handle of the saucepan and car ried it to the table. Then it didn't boil over any more, but it spilled all the way, and we all stepped in it. and it was very sticky.
 ''And when we walked about the floor, that was very sticky, too. And there was dreadful smell and dread ful smoke.
 Mamma came down to see, and she saw, and she looked with her hands up. She said she couldn't leave the baby again, and we must be careful and keep the molasses on the back of the stove Then it didn't boil over any more.
 "When we all jumpe. mp, the pea nuts all fell down. When we picked them up, they were all sticky. The shells stuck to the nuts, but Tom said they wouldn't show in the candy.
 I've put the peanuts in, and tasted to see if it was dcne; but it burned us, and we all cried.
 II took some in saucer to ask man. ma if it was done. l spilled it in the hall and on the stairs, but it was so dark there it didn't show at all. Nam ma said it wasn't done, so we boiled it some more.
 ''Then I got the big meat dish and poured it all in. We setit outdoors to cool. We knew when it was cool, for Rover came and licked it before we could drive him away.
 ..It was very hard and it wouldn't come off the dish. Mamma had told me to put some butter on the dish first, but I forgot it. put some on then, but it didn't do bit of good.
 'At last Tom got the hammer and hammered it. Then it broke all to pieces. The dish broke. too.
 When we got the candy of the pieces, we worked it to get it white. I dropped mine in the wood-box and got some little chips on it They wouldn't come of, but when went on working it, they didn't show any. Tom made long string with his. and jumped the rope with it
 '.The candy didn't get very white. When we were all tired of working it, I went to papa's desk to get some nice white paper to put it on. l went to ask sister Laura for some thread, but she was out, so 1 hunted in her work basket and got it myself. l tied up some little parcels of the candy.
 "Then we took some to mamma and grandmother, and they were very much obliged to us, indeed, but said they wouldu' take it from us
 Tom has had to have his hair cut very short. Elsie cries every time her hair is combed.
 "Grandmother says she can't step anywhere in the house but what it's sticky. Papa says all the paper in his desk is sticky. Sister Laura says all the thread in her basket is sticky. Bridget says every thing everywhere is sticky.
 Mamma says we had better not make any more molasses candy for g long time, "- YoaA's conVaatOsh