Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-23
Bread-An' Butter
-An'-Apple
Butter
81
By BARBARA KERR
copyright. 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
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By BARBARA KERR


Copyright. 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
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She was little brown wisp Of a
thing. sitting in a big chair prOpped
upon a box 70 make her just the right
height to stir the apple butter. She
could rest the long handle of the stir
rer ON the arm of the chair so il
would not be so heavy. then she could
keep the paddle moving over the bot
tom of the great copper kettle. To
help keep the rich butter from stick
ing TO the bottom of the kettle her
mother had thrown in a number of
bright. new copper cents thoroughly
cleansed with hot vinegar and salt.
If the apple butter was not scOrched.
Sarah Jane was to have all the pen
! MES for her own, besides, of course,
all of the good bread and butter and
apple butter that she could eat all
winter.
1t was an ideal October day. Along
the fence was a riot of color, with now
and then sumach. like an immense
bunch of scarlet geraniums or a clump
of goldenrod. The po0eberrieS with
their purple inkwells mingled with the
oio""S' iueSe's anu green's vi summer
weeds and great profusOn of wild
grapevines. And Sarah Jane APP
proved. The air was spicy with the
fragrance of cooking apples and cider.
Inc sreat copper Kettle huhs over
si'" Vutuoor IRE near the spring !
mousse anu the lohg Stlrrer moved
liiS lninicahS over tlie Dottom' pushing
INC pelinles ABOUT ceaseiesSiy'
oarah Jane was drohlhg an lmpro-
Niseu httie song "hich She attuneu
10 tne SWISH OF the pennies ana the
sursle Oh lhe apple outter as IL surseu
t,roush .ne iioles III the "ooueu pau
uIe Vi ule stirref
aller-putter-
Dre"u-ah -outler-an - apple out
LOO nugh hdru ciuer VIII make you
sta.tel
"eh' neiio, htt'e poet no" uo
sou Aho" Arleu II! I've drought
.he resi- VI your cluer from me MILL
oul nol nalu' WHERE your
ino'lief
Ashaiheu tllat anyone' especially
MILO Nhru, Tue luoi VI ner cniiuish
neart' shouio nave hearu ilef SHY ht-
TIC "ons' o"i"n JUNE NUNS ne' he'u III
iiioi 'lic a.ion ohe "ouiu n"Ne iun
away, Dul sne was iniiiului tlal Dun-
can was laliiouS lor ltS apple
putler, 4Ilich huu never oeen ourheu.
,9ne = p0,i "e' iie Oio"n D"ie
80 Y unue nei 'Ai - anu 'iiioS'
up"e'
Look out lor the lhrohe crleu
MILO as ne caught lhe cilalr anu right
Gu II oh the po4' lhen' seelns her
nc tooh llle stlrrer
rom her hanus' saying gently Ion
nihu me- niue oay-'ahe' Let me
give tne stirrer lie" "hirIs "hiie
you nhu your ino'ner LOT me-
Sarah Jane needed no second Did
ing. she FOUND her mother, but
would not return TO her post till MILO
lad dehVered the clder ana gone. She
heard him say TO her mother as he u
vas leaving: Il guess L leased Say u
letter manners next time, Tor I'm go
ng away TO college. p
October came and went in the val II
ey. Other children, sons and daugh- p
ers of the farmers, went to college. II
fany of them, after finishingA returned a
% more, but took up their lives in va &
ious ways in other places. One who IL
id not return was Milo Ward, for his 81
nmily had moved away and the Ward
arm was sold. But Sarah Jane could L
OF remain away; the old folks at m
ONE needed her. She and her moth
r still made apple butter, but not in A,
lie big copper kettle, for there were !"
, few now to eat it.
Then war broke out, and Sarah G.
ane, patriotic and sweet and whole
'me as her own valley ~anted to do
ar bit. She would make apple butter
II the soldiers She brought forth
he copper kettle, and as she sat pa oil
emily stirring her thoughts reverted b,