Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-31

Ia throw the whole thing out i'm
back yardr' Z.
The natural docility OF mis- no..
however, prevailed, and he laif ,R.
noxious vianGs unmolested. ana %
ceeded with his dinner. AT ga ~ Pc
the chops on 10 broil, "as in the o.. -. z.
days of yore"-thls poetic alT,..
the style of cooking being oeos.'.
by one OF them accidently droro - w
the fire, whence he rescued +. ~
great presence OF mind by the i,-.
sistance of the stove litter ami A..
the best table napkins. By tsa
the chop was thus rescued both +. "a
the table napkin were fairly wei -
TO say nothing stronger This re s'
difficulty he got over by pur.rg y.
erring chop on the windcx sill -
/ and the napkin into the fire-,o A, =
other thing.
Tbs accomplished, and with
chop gently cooking on the gr.s.
and the other one cooling on tbs ~
dow sill, he started to constnc. :.
paste for his apple pudding
proved most fascinating. He n.,.'s
large quantity Of -four in a small 49,.
emptied jug OF water on 10, \,
added butter to taste. and process.4
mold it deity into shape. as h. T.,
often seen his wife do The aoa- =,
water promptly forsook he bYr =.
I betook themselves to his hands rs.'
| the milk for the soup began 10 h,,.
just as the potatoes boiled Orr p.
rushed to the rescue and left the ,,..'
porllon OF the paste fairly eya-iy n
vided between the handles Of ne -.
saucepans and the stove llf.er A,A.
juncture the tomatoes started IN .,..
IL they couldn't surpass the n1t
burning. They succeeded. The 90,
which was accustomed to a G.9jf,-,.
walked off with the chop on The a,f,,
sill, while the chop on the f-s s,..
beautifully black on the dogs "A.
So many things were now burr'7, 81
at the same time that Mr. Nee. s,v.
up all hope OF trying to discover si,s
one was burning most. lie. The 3.s
ed things burn till they're sick a. r~
was the extremely broad-m!ntei ~
in which he summed up the SITUATE.
With the astuteness that charac.erp
him as distinguished from bis isr,y.
men, he at once gave up an sFo-,
track the truant paste. and simply ','.
ped his apples into the oven 10 hp
It was about 1880 and the fire was ~.
ting hotter than pretty much alvh.u
on earth, unless, perhaps, 10 was y,
Meek. He turned all the danrer
opened all the doors and took of all %.
lids. This resulted most satisfactorily
the fire began 10 cool. II dida't SOP
1t got, if anything, little low Ahs
that it got very low. Then It wen; OF
He rushed for kindling. and nearly iOot
his head off on a clothes line. JlE
as he had got through nicely expressing
his views on clothes lines in genera
and that clothes line in particular y
went about twice as far toward akl:
his head off on the same clothes line q
his way back
The gentlest OF natures when Togsi
are often the most terrible. N Nei
became very terrible. He used eloI
kindling, profanity and coal oil to hia
ignited the pyramids OF EgyW u
stamped and showed and p0kei 81
poked and banged and cursed and san
till even the cat-and It had bad
dinner-was displeased with him d
departed to the outer kitchen 90 n
the oysters, which the dila = y gTo
had just deposited on the table VIC
out waiting to parley with Mr. Wed
He WAS a wise grocer and had iA
enough.
Wnen. about five minutes later "
Meek discovered that the cat had 'o-'
the oysters to its taste. he became eit
less calm. Had the cat been around
but. like the grocer. It had h@i
enough, and had taken an unoDIls
departure-it is highly probable max
considerable majority OF its nine .'
would have come to an abrupt teTnn
ton.
At this stage. TO console the uio
tunate man, the fire began to 20 asa
Once started, it didn't stop. in ao'
five minutes It had burned up WEI
NAMED of pretty much everything
cept a large pot of green tea ana
small portion Of Mr.. Meek. me C
that the cat hadn't eaten was espe'a
well done. 1t could be quite sale.'
on the window sill with whole les'
of cats around it. Mr.. Meek, how"
simply left ii in the coal bin. 10 p
of either color or hardness w"
have been difficult to have found I
fitting place for it. ,Y
Then there came over VT A
face terrible expression. he prov.
in a pail Gt was the scrubblng
which ne had mistaken for me
pail, bu. no matter) and poured ihs
carefully into 1t, Throwing ne
about five feet, into the sink NH
scraped the potatoes into the SANE
and again another pan follow. Il
course Of the first in getting ~
sink. Then he poured the ioil'a' .,.
top OF the potatoes, and sun - Ia
pan got to the sink with unnslai 70,
ity. II cannot be defnl'eii
whether or not Mr.. Meek. in DONE M
was actuated by the desire 10 p.s
some famous hunters dish ie.,- M
the dear old camping days sat
but certain It is that no soon, ~ IA
get the tomatoes nicely on ioy Air
potatoes than he took the %nG ,-., Il
and tossed It, pail and a'' ''
outer lane. ,.i., -ii
This accomplished, he proce''' ..s
a meal off the cold ham am ...,
and butter-the cooking butte ,,.t a
Just as he was finishing MITE I'D
turned. why. James" she q,
fully. "you never sent the cab ''' '
/ waited nearly an hour" ,. Dr
mo" said her husband cam. r-i1
been terribly busy. Men from N'' ~,
Just got home little VIII aI ri
very good hama shade o''
it?" ...,-.ss
perhaps a shade less wor.l' E
Il. Let me get you pc t-