The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-13
HOW I'M WAS DONE.

minds me-
rs this going 10 10 q bit Of personal
experience interrupted the man who
had his feet on the table.
Reminds me of old Lickladder, who
used to drive the stage between Ripley
and Mount Sterling away back in the
sos. Somebody once told him that
when you make apple butter you can
make II back into apples again If it
isn't good, provided you go at it right"
II seem to have heard that story be-
fore" said the man who was smoking
the rank cigar
''Yes. but you never heard of old
Lickladder. The peculiar thing about
him Is that he believed it. He lived by
himself in a little old log cabin down
on the banks OF Crooked Greek. Did
all his own cooking. happened in on
him once when he was
Say, how old were you then?7 que
ried the man with the white spot in his
mustache.
Doesn't make any difference how
old | was then or how old am now.
I'm talking about old Lickladder. /
dropped i'll once. as | was saying, and
found him stirring something in a big
brass kettle. asked him what he was
doing. He said he had made a lot Of
apple butter, but it didn't suit him and
he was making it back into apples
Yes that's the same story" said the
man with the green goggles. MY
grandfather used to tell me he read it
in the Prairie Telegraph when he was
a boy"
''Your grandfather never read any
thing in the Prairie Telegraph about
old Lickladder Permit me to mention
the fact again, gentlemen. that this
chapter Of history refers principally to
him. said.
You gullible old fool, haven't you
sense enough 20 know you can't DO
thatg
''IIe stopped Stirring and he says to
me:
"Look here. I don't want you to talk
that way TO me. You're disturbin' the
count
What countY | said
"Then he took the Kettle off the fire
for minute or two and he says:
You reckon don't know what I'm
doin', but | do When you make ample
butter the right way is to stir it from
right to left all the time an count the
number of times you stir it till you git
it all done. You mustn't make any
mistake about H. either. When it's
done You stop stirrin' and take it off
the fire. Then you taste IT. If you
don't like it, you put it back Oh the
fire, stir it from left to right jist the
exac' number Of times yon stirred it
from right to left and it's apples agin.'
"'And you believe that? / said.
That's right, he said.
People didn't say that's right III
those days. objected the man with
the frazzled trousers.
"Old Lickladder did. He put that
kettle back on the fire and began stir
ring and counting again. | Sat down
and watched him. He kept il up for
three-quarters of an hour. and you may
believe me or not, gentlemen, but with
my own eyes | saw that apple butter
turn back into apples again, all nicely
luartered, and they We're swimming
around in two gallons of sweet cider
he had put in that brass kettle to boil
EN- in
The man in tie macintosh ceased
talking
Profound silence reigned in the group
for the next five minutes.
Then the man who had his feet on
The table slowly took them down. All
he said was that if there was any
creature on earth he hated it was a
blamed liar, and he started for the
ioor followed By the rest Of the audit
1rs. leaving the man i'll the macintosh
llone with his story Chicago Tribune.