The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1905-06-03
HOW III WAS DONE.

served the man in the macintosh re
minds me-
els this going to DC bit of personal
experience" interrupted the man who
had his feet OH the table.
"Heninds me of old I.ickladder. who
used TO drive the stage between Ripley
and Mount Sterling away back in the
Jos. Somebody once told him that
when YOU make apple butter you can
make it back into apples again If it
Isn't good, provided you go ut 1t right"
Il seem to lave heard that story be-
fore" said the man who WAS smoking
the rank cigar.
Eyes. but you never heard of old
Lickladder. The peculiar thing about
him is that lie believed 1t. He lived by
himself in little old 10. cabin down
OIL the banks of Crooked Greek. Did
all his own cooking. l happened in on
him once when he was
Say, how old were YOU then:' que
ried the man with the white spot in his
mustache.
Doesn't make any difference how
old was then CT how old am now.
I'm talking about old Lickladder. j
dropped In once. us was saying. and
found him stirring something in big
brass kettle. asked him what he was
doing. He said he had made Il 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 1t
in the Prairie Telegraph when he was
boy"
"Your grandfather never read any
thing in the Prairie Telegraph about
old Lickladdcr. Permit me to mention
the fact again, gentlemen. that this
chapter of history refers principally 10
him. i said: ..
".You gullible old fool. haven't you
sense enough to know you can't do
that:'
He stopped stirring and he says to
me:
".I.ook here. don't want you to talk
that way TO me. You're disturbir the
count
"'What count?' said.
"Then he took tho kettle off the fire
Aol IL lhIAult VI t"o 'uit liz
"'YOu reckon don't know what lin
dom, but do. When you make apple
butter the right way is to stir ii from
right to left all tie time an count the
number of times you STIR it till you git
1t all done. You mustn't make any
mistake about it. either. When It's
done you stop stirrin' and take 1t off
the fire. Then you taste it Il you
don't like it, YOU put 1t back on the
fire. stir it from left to right jist the
exac' number of times you stirred it
from right to left and its apples agin.'
"'And You believe that:' said.
That's right he said.
'PeopIe didn't say that's right In
those days" objected the man with
the frazzled trousers.
"OM Lickladder did. Tie put that
kettle back on the fire and began STIR
ring and counting again. sat down
and watched him. He kept it up for
three-quarters of an hour, and you may
believe me or not. gentlemen. but with
my own eyes l saw that apple butter
turn back into apples again, all nicely
quartered. and they were swimming
around in two gallons of sweet cider
he had put in that brass Kettle to boil
'em in"
The man il the macintosh ceased
talking.
Profound silence reigned il the group
for the next five minutes.
Then the man who had his feet on
the table slowly took them down. All
he II
creature on earth he hated it was
blamed liar. and he started for the
door. followed by the rest of the audit
ors. leaving the man in the macintosh
alone with his story.-Chicago Tribune.