Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-04
How to Suck Eggs.

"When was boy back in Ohio, taught
my grandmother how to suck eggs" remarked
Grandfather Steptoe as his little hearers
gathered about his knee.
20, tell US howl" piped four juvenile
voices in concert.
81 was raised principally by my grand.
father on his farm. which was on lonely
shore of Lake Erie My father saw very little
of me, and while l stood in need Of his
examples and precepts, he was in another
part of the country. What see now as
clearly as day was, in my childish years,
mystery. At night my little sister and l
sionally These lights had different colors,
and would appear and dis ppear like FASH.
They would make my father nervous and
fdgety all the evening, and at midnight he
would take the skitf and row out to see what
the matter was. When we would see the
lights early in an evening would tell sister
not to tell father, as he would get one of his
fits. But father would always see them
before we did. About that period there used
to be administered Canadian come to see
us, and father would slap him on the back at
times and call him 'pard One night father
went out and didn't come back for fifteen
years. We never saw the lights or the Cana
dian after that. was told that father was
Young man. He was paler and stouter, and
had on a suit that looked as though it had
been given t, him. Bef re, he wore fine
clothes and jewelry, and drank lots of French
brandy. why, father said, we thought
you had gone to Davy Jones locker. Il
went to Uncle S ms locker, he said, and
then he and my grandfather laughed as.
though they would tear the buttons off their
wais'c coats afterwards learned the meaning
of my fathers joke. However, that has
nothing to do with the story am going 10
tell you, children
Zone day when was fooling around the
barn, l felt great hankering for eggs l.
knew where there was sitting hen up in the
loft and SO climbed up there. Say, had
the dod gastedest time getting those eggs,
though"
"What does 'dod gastedest' mean, grand.
pa?" asked Mamie.
81 cannot really tell you just exactly what
it does mean," replied the old gentleman
thoughtfully. ~ heard Judge express him
self that way once when he was telling what
difficult task he had in making Kauai Jury
understand case. He used the term, the
d,d gastedest time and | thought it was.
forcible and very good. walked through the
hay near the side of the loft and, not calculat.
ing right fell down Manager hole. 1t hap
pened to be the stall where my srandfather's
best driving mare stood. OF Course it gave
her fright and she broke the halter and ran
out into the road They didn't catch her for
week. got out of the marger and went
aloft again. | soon found the nest, and tell
you it was no government billet getting that
old hen off her eggs. She had a beak like
pair of scissors. finally succeeded, how
ever, and, after holding each egg up to the
light, picked out four good ones, which car.
red into the house. what on earth are you
going to do with those eggs, Josiah?' my
grandmother asked. Suck EN- | said.
'Lor'! she exclaimed, Il never heard of
such thing. took one egg, broke the
shell little at the small end and sucked it
dry. Then she took up an egg and did the
same as did with it,