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MEMORIES OF CLOT COUNT?By J. E. Wagner 52 Westminster Road, Newton Centre 59, MassachusettsSIMPSON’S CANDY PtXL ,grim death. Usually the boy gets;If you never attended an old a Sob of lhc mass, say;time candy pull, “You ain't never, ^lom a *° a tu^ pound of it,,'and shapes a longish roll of it. Then he takes an end of it in! each hand, and the girl grabs it jhad no fun.’’ This is about one that was held at Dr. Simpson’s,and about a few' other things. I .m the middle and pulls, while |To begin with, he was no more i the boy pulls his hands togethera doctor than Grandpa Walker and transfers what he had inwas a veterinarian, but if any one hand to the other, and grabs j thing got wrong with farm ani- what is between her hand and; mals around Ten Mile they sent his, and she grabs with her fret' for Grandpa, who bled and dosed hand and so they go, stretchingw mm 'mmand advised in a eommon-sense I and giggling, as the mass be-way. So far as I know, at that comes cooler and harder to pull, time, what it took to be a doctor • Stranpely, so long as they keej was to have a shingle painted pulling, it will give, and grow with Dr. So and So’s name on it. pale and then white. Finally, the So, our neighbor painted himself hostess would inspect it. and say, a shingle, and some people sent I ‘‘Fine! That’s ready to eat,” and lor him when they got sick. He with a sigh the boy and girls had one remedy. All I know about join hands and restore the mass it is what I heard the folks say. to a single roll, irregular and! Mainly it was turpentine, a touch; brittle. Let it lie for a minute of Blue Mass, which was the and it will shatter if hit by a‘msurest and most painful purgative hammer or thrown on the tablethe color of buttermilk, with a bt of shlt;e blacking, and the taste of the Devil's own broth.*( I 11e.er, or it may have been a Some way, lots of the tangyfaint touch of calomel, a grain taste of sorghum has been pulledof quinine, something to give it °nt of it, leaving just the sweetand flavor and likes. Chew it? Just try it! Chews about likein thend it softens, anc one sinks his teeth into needs a crow-bar to got his open. Kids with loose teeth times discovered that the lumpwere chewing on was the tooth that had been loose.Hint. Holdi noucl-That night at the candy pull e doctor was dignified, hospit-!e, and suave, but managed to mounce early that he always id Old Kate saddled, out at thev e barn, lest some one come for him in a hurry, and he ought not 1 keep them waiting. No one er heard him prescribe anv-* t*tiling but his own reinedv.whenhe uthinrI was fourteen Alienson candy pun was on. i nenwere three Simpson girls. Ophe-»1 Pull must ha. Lillie, and Sally, with Lillieand I the same age. No, she was not my sweetheart. In fact, 1 refused to agree that I had aNot too far a wav.tliViiCandy for a re made of sorghum molasses.Perish the thought!f** -. - . Cg * *sugar?Boil the sorghum long enough, let it cool to where you can han- sweetheart, die it with bare hands, and it there lived a pinkish little trick, will probably be of a rich, golden brown color, There is a way to turn it as white as snow. First, whom I always a boy and a girl form a team, sweethearts were butter their hands liberally, or* fthe stuff will stick to them likenot much more than half my height, but as wide as I was, otthought whenmentioned, but she did not know it. At least Irvihe’dandnile.findthought she didn’t. She wa shy, in fact she ran when t hov approached her. That is, except when I stood beside her a moment, when Indore she ran give me a scared glance smile, for my equally shy I do not remember ever i spoken to her.Anv wav. what v. as I toUp •*ctheart! I was all and legs, hands and feet W _ . it that a boy's hands and feet get their gr wth before the rest ot him is more than half grown’’At fourteen I had number ten and a halt feet, wit! hands n match My wrists were bony ands nearlva foot. Mv shins and ankles werejust as bony, andith i n kirms* iIstuck out of mv sleeves near!* U’ PiV » * V- vMvmy panIlf MServes America coast to coastmm mm mm mm mm ** mm mm mm mm mamwith frequentschedules\ esigood ter enoughot mvnd pant s. and *!-pa rt it»h u*1 t\IIc»rvi #I triedwerethey st ishow a ' h i r tIidfting out, makinga hi ne Mindt* ».,# l M V 1 1 ^tround roe, for r1 . t * y♦ % |«An 4 » 1mmttie iowet than111 V- n 11) i M K*r ■ 4SKYs:AMARILLOTEXARKANANEW ORLEANS; I •# iilNORFOLK1 VO 1 I. ;kS9E'! Hi '-Set Ml .It was so hard Vf ^came out w ith a t•oar, ai1 went up Ti 4 l » 4 I X m f « i iffI lfl.it i Was4 iUJ' .■r'jK'-'uyijy } * \jLf « kw*A \ 1 A *•AH fC | / , * % i r Vjpk I I % f *lappv. Eh. O!j i A i . ^ ^ , •• fc-l U V i 1 I t V- *
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Henrietta Clay County Leader
Henrietta, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 22, 1954
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