Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-03-04
HOW 1T WAS DONE.

speaking of natural born fools" OBJ
served the man in the macintosh, re
minds me-
us this going to be bit of personal
experiences" 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
COS. Somebody once told him that
when you make apple butter you can
make it back into apples again If 1t
isn't good, provided you go at ii right"
II seem to have heard that story be-
fore" said the man who was smoking
the rank cigar.
Eyes. but you never heard Of old
Llckladder. The peculiar thing about
him is that he believed it. He lived by
himself in little old log cabin down
on the banks of Crooked Creek. Did
all his own cooking. l happened in on
him once when he was"--.
Say, how old were you then" que
lied 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 l
dropped in once, as l was saying, and
found him stirring something in a big
brass Kettle. asked him what he was
doing. He said he had made lot of
apple butter but it didn't suit him and
he was making it back into apples"
Eyes, that's the same story" said the
man with the green goggles. MY
grandfather useu 10 tell me he read 1t
IN the Prairie Telegraph when he was
q 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 to know you can't do
| that?
HE stopped stirring and he says to
me:
Look here, don't want you to talk
that way to me. You're dlsturbin the
| count
What count? said.
"Then he took the kettle off the fire
for minute or two and he says:
you reckon don't know what I'm
ioln', but do. When you make apple
butter the right way is to stir it from
light to left all the time an count the
aumber of times you stir it till you git
It all done. You mustn't make any
mistake about it, either. When it's
lone you stop stirrin' and take 1t off
the fire. Then you taste it. IL you
don't like it, you put it back on the
ire, stir it from left to right jist the
eXac' number of times you 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 in
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 it up for
lhree-quarters of an hour, and you may
believe me or not, gentlemen, but with
my own eyes I saw that apple butter
turn back into apples again, all nicely
luartered, and they were swimming
around in two gallons of sweet cider
he had put in that brass kettle to boil
EN- in"
The man in the macintosh ceased
talking
Profound silence reigned in the group
| Tor the next five minutes.
Then the man who had his feet OH
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
door, followed by the rest of the audit
DIS, leaving the man in the macintosh
alone with his ry.-Chicago Tribune.