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Show '(ALL ARE FOND OF MOLASSES Favorite Dish with Farm Hands After Hard Day's Work. Tho farm hands, a dozen brawny colored men, had washed at tho pump, and now Bat patiently nnd quietly at tho table. Soon tholr dinner np-penred. np-penred. , There was Bomo kind of boiled porlt a long, low oblong of puro whlto fat, with Just one vhrend of lean running through It; and thero was pono, delicious pono made by tho Southern cook; and thero were potatoes, pota-toes, coffeo and black molasses. The men put tho black molasses on their fat pork. The farmer Bald: "It Is nmnzlng how farm hands like molasHes. 1 like It maclf Tho long, hard work In the sunny fields glvea you an uppctlto that nothing satlsileB us molnrseH will. "I usoj to have an ovcreeer who could no moro hnvo eaten his dinner without molaHseB tiiun without n knife, lie would take on hlB pinto moat, potatoes, corn, henna and bo on, and he would chop and mltiglo these, things together, nddlng tiltB of bread hoaldcs, and lastly he would tnko tho molasses Jug and pour on about half n pint. That seems liko n heavy nnd Blckcnlug dish for tho hot noon of nn August dny, doesn't it? I toll you, though, It tnBtes good to a man who linn been tolling In n blazing blaz-ing field Blnco sunrise. I've tried it, nnd I know." |