| Show LONG OR OIL SHORT sweetening two tiro young youn t officers were traveling in the far west when a they stopped to tale take supper at a small road side slide tavern kept by a very rough yankee oman woman the landlady in a calico sun bonnet and bare feet stood at the head lead of the table to pour out she inquired of her guests if they choose ons iona oas sweetening sweetening or short sweetening Z the first ofil officer supposing that iong lon long ion 9 sweetening Z meant a jar large wa e p portion of the arti artl article articie cle cie chose accordingly what t was his dismay when he saw their hostess dip her finger deep down into an in harthern ear thern jar of honey atiat that stood near her and then stir the finger round in the coffee his uis companion seeing this preferred short sweetening upon which the woman picked up a large lump of maple sugar that lay in a brown paper on the floor beside her and bitin biting oil a piece put it into the cup both of oe the ge gentlemen dispensed with coffee that evening |
