The Washington herald., 1920-12-17
An o. Henry Story
The Pimienta Pancakes

! hands with Jackson Bird. I'll get
it for you if l can, and glad to
oblige.' And he turned off down the
big pear fiat on the Piedra, in the
! direction of Mired Mule, and 1 steer
ed northwest for old Bill Toomey's
| ranch.
1T was fve days afterward when
/ got another chance to ride over to
| Pimienta. Miss Willella and me
passed a gratifying evening at IN
i Gle Emsley's. She sang some and
| eXasperated the piano quite a lot
| with quotations from the operas. !
| gave limitations of a rattlesnake and
told her about Snaky McFee's new
way of skinning cows and described
the trip / made to st. Louis once. We
was getting along in one another's
estimations fine. Thinks 1, il Jack
son Bird can now be persuaded to
migrate, win. l recollect his prom
I Use about the pancake receipt, and
I thinks / will persuade il from Miss
Willella and give it to him; and then
If 1 catches Birdie off of Mired Mule
again, I'll make him hop the twig.
so. along about ten o'clock, /
put on a wheedling smile and says
to Miss Willella: Now, il there's
/
sight of a red steer on green grass
it's the taste of a nice hot pancake
smothered in sugar-house molasses.
Miss willella gives a little jump
on the piano stool and looked at me
curious.
Yes says she, they're real
nice. What did you say was the
name of that street in St. Louis, Mr..
Il II. Il. l.
| Pancake avenue says /, with a
wink. to show her that / was on
about the family receipt and
couldn't be side-corralled off of the
subject. Come, now, Miss Willella, =,
says 1; let's hear how you make
EN-. Pancakes is just whirling in
my head like wagon wheels. Start
her off. now-pound of -four, eight
dozen eggs, and so on. How does
the catalogue of constituents run?
| "'Excuse me for moment
please says Miss willella, and she
gives me a quick kind of sideways
look and slides off the stool. She
ambled out into the other room and
directly Uncle Emsley comes in in
his shirt sleeves, with a pitcher OF
;, water. He turns around to get a
glass on the table, and I see forty
five in his hip pocket. Great post
holes thinks 1, but here's family
Thinks a heap of cooking receipts
protecting it with firearms. I've
known outfits that wouldn't do that
I much by a family feud.'
Drink this here down. says Un-
Gle Emsley. handing me the glass OF
ater. You've rid too far today
Mud. and got yourself over-excited
PRssAs0 think about something else
"sDo you know how to make then
4 pancakes, Uncle Emsley?' l asked.
"'Well, I'm no. as surprised in
. the anatomy of them as some say:
Uncle Emsley, but / reckon you
! take a sitter of plaster-of-paris an6
little dough and saleratus and
corn meal and mix 'em with egg:
and buttermilk as usual. Is old Bill
going to ship beeves to Kansas City
again this spring, JUDI
That was all the pancake speci.
fcations 1 could get that night.
, didn't wonder that Jackson BirC
, found 1t uphill work. So I dropped
the subject and talked with Uncle
Emsley a while about hollow-horr
: and cyclones. And then Miss Will
! ella came and said Good night anC
MT the DTSezc lot the TdnCn.
about a week afterward I me-
Jackson Bird riding out of Pimients
as 1 rode in, and we stopped in the
road for few frivolous remarks.
Got the bill of particulars fol
them fiapjacks YETI asked him.
, "Well, no. says Jackson. L don
seem to have any success in getting
, hold of it. Did you try?
"1 did, says I. and twas like
trying to dig a prairie dog out Of
, his hole with a peanut hull. That
pancake receipt must be a jock alo.
rum, the way they hold on to it,
TIM most ready to, give IL up,
says jackson so discouraged in hi.
pronunciations that ] felt sorry TO,
: him: but ] did want to know how
to make them pancakes to eat OF
my lonely ranch says he. I II,
3 awake at nights thinking how goo,
: they are
= "'You keer on trying for IT.
tells him, and I'll do the same
One of us is bound to get a ron,
over its horns before long. Well
5 = so-long. Jacksy.'
(To Be Continued.) -