The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-06-01
By M. QUAD

putting on brave front. She got the
mans sympathy and admiration.
Say, b'gosh. it's hard lines!' he said
as he thumped the ground with his fist
1--WE been jumped on myself, and
know how it is. I'm just working out
of the worst streak Of luck man ever
had, and I'm going to win out"
'Is there a heap Of money in ped
dlingT she asked.
mo. I'm looking around for some
thing better. I'm getting my dollars
together to go to New York. Aunt Sal
~, can you cook?"
1--WE had to do it for about forty
years." she answered, with a rueful
smile.
Eyes, you've had to cook meat and
taters. but have you got speciality
Have you cooked something that
everybody has praisedY
Il amt no brag. stranger, but I've
had fifty people praise my pumpkin
pies"
Anything elseY'
Eyes, my pancakes. When they used
to have summer hotel down by the
lake used to sell em pumpkin pies,
and dozens of people used to come here
to eat my pancakes. Oh. got lots Of
praise"
Anything peculiar about your pies
and pancakes?' asked the peddler.
IL can't say as there was. but they
got the praise. Mebbe it was peculiar
twist of the wrist. Some folks said
So"
peculiar twist, eh? Well. that's
what New York is always looking for
peculiar twists. Um! Um! A Pc
culiar twist in New York means bar
rel Of money for the twister. Look
here. now. Got the stuff in the house
to make pies and pancakes"
With trembling lips and tears ready
to start. Aunt Sally replied she was
very poor.
"Then tell me what is wanted and
I'll drive over to Bristol and get it.
It'll be canned pumpkin this time of
year. but We'll make that do. Go
ahead"
But don't understand"
'"Then listen to me. I'm looking to
60 to New York and open lunch
place. There's got to be something to
advertise it. have got to have a
peculiar twist to some dish. If you've
got twist on pumpkin pies and pam
cakes our fortunes are made. I'll d.
vide with you"
The astonished and frustrated Aunt
Sally told the peddler what she must
have to make trial or, and he drove
away and returned with them. Then
he took the ak and cut up lot Of
wood and then put in two hours
work in the garden. By that time the
pies and pancakes were ready for him.
He looked with pleased eye at the
deep rich brown. and be minced and
chewed with the palate of an epicure
Then he devOured. He "hogged down"
two pumpkin pies and more than half
a dozen pancakes and then showed
back and, said:
Widow, you've got itv'
i Ic peculiar CWlSt {!
that's it. Never ate such pies and
pancakes in my life. Well have all
New York running after 'em. Now,
you just keep quiet for month or so.
/ want to sell my horse and wagon
and stock. l want to borrow every
dollar can. and want to go to the
city and look up place. When I'm
ready I'll come for you"
But I'm old. and I'm homely. and 1
hain't got no good Clothes" she pro-
tested.
Don't you worry about that You
just practice away on that twist of the
wrist and expect me back here in four
weeks"
Whether stranger or New Yorker,
you've seen the place-you've lunched
there. The sight of Aunt Sally in the
window with her calico dress and
white collar frying those nut brown
pancakes at a gas stove has made you
hungry at once. Yes. there's sign to
tell you that it's Aunt Sally and an
other telling of her pumpkin pies, and
Islde the place you'll find everything
as clean as new gold dollar and the
ex-tin peddler keeping an eye on wait
ers and patrons.
The twist" caught on from the first
day. and 1t is staying right by the
place. Hundreds Of. thousands Of
people have come to know Aunt Sally
by sight, and there are many that
smile and not at her as they halt for
moment. Sometimes between the
PUSHES she and the ex-peddler have a
few minutes for talk. but their con-
versations always end up with her ex-
clamation:
And to think that I've got money
in the bank and won't have to die In
the poorhouse!s