Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-15
"More Applesauce"
A BED TIME STORY

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Now my little friends give me your
close attention and / will tell you
little bed time story before you go to
the land of nod.
Many, many years ago, in the far
off land of Appledonia, little king
dom I'm remote part of Russia, there
was born boy who was destined for
great things. Little Apovich Sauce
ski grew and loved his little home
town of Sleepy Hollowgrad.
APP was always a sweet little fellow
and never played with the rough
town boys. He would spend many
hours gathering apples from the
neighboring farms and running home
with them in his little hands, would
beg to have them made into apple
sauce, his favorite dish. This fancy
he never outgrew
One day while picking apples he
came upon a naughty town boy,
stealing apples from his uncle's or
chard. His name was Apple Apple
baum and he was big and rough
looking and poor little APP was wor-
RED He wanted to run and tell his
uncle but big Apple jumped upon
him and threatened terrible things if
APP told. He promised to show Ap
what he did with his apples if he
would not tell his uncle. Together
they went to a little cave where
queer looking pots were spread
around. APP marveled at the rich
flavor and made fast friends with
Apple, promising some day to ask the
King to take Apple into his army.
The flying years passed by and Ap
grew to be big man. Then one
day storm clouds gathered over the
kingdom of Appledonia and nearly
all the young men went to the King
to join his armies, but poor APP
could not go for marching chilled
his feet and his constitution was not
strong in spite of all the apples he
had eaten. This grieved him sorely
and he resolved that some day he
would have his own army and have
little war of his own.
Ap took his place in the busy world
working for his fond uncle who took
him into his Apple Products Factory,
teaching him how to make ''apples on
the stick" and best of all how to mix
his beloved applesauce. APP quickly
grew in skill and knowledge and in a
short time knew more than his dear
uncle.
But through all these years his sec
ret longing to work for the King and
have his own army had never been
satisfied. So he resolved to seek the
King and lay his plans before him.
Now it seems that Sleepy Hollow
grad was at this time without real
commander for its army, and many
disturbances were occurring within its
bounds. Many subjects had fallen in
to the habit of drinking too much
applejuice which made them do all
kinds of queer things.
The King greeted APP with open
arms and taking from his bottomless
chest bag of gold, gave him thirty
five hundred golden rubIes saying,
go forth into Sleepy Hollowgrad
and spend this money as you will,
but it is large amount and you
should easily restore and keep order
with it. At the end of year return
to me with the glad tidings that you
have wiped out the applejuice curse.
Greatly elated APP went forth de-
termined to make good before the
people, who were anxiously waiting
for a deliverer. He reached about
for powerful men to execute his or
ders and soon built up what he
thought was POWERFUL army.
OF course you have guessed that
he remembered his old friend Apple
Applebaum and his boyhood promise.
He ordered Apple in particular to
hunt for the wicked applejuice sell
ers and to put down the evil.
But, alas, time had changed the big
boy Apple. He accepted most Of APPS
gold but gave nothing in return.
Sleeping sickness overlook him and
compelled him to rest for hours at a
time. He misunderstood the orders