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Show Tommy' TalTyJ Onco upon a tlmo I "M'"1 lMir who waa to fond of canj;" " could never get enough, nit"1 nlJ waya atklng for augar "ll','J,afJ: nlwny tenting hi "auntlof M, ,, "makotnrfy." So ono day ahPB"1 aho would try to plwiae htm'KCj and aho gave him tho molatteiK on a big pot, and told him iu)tlif J"1 and make all the candy he w1 ,0; Tho longer tho boy looked IW Pl and looked at tho Jug. the a uo fell quite ture that ho couUt nil tho laflr tho pot could t ami thercforo needed all the roci Jug contained. So ho Juit'mr1 lno Jug Into tho pot, and aoj 0, thing a-bolllng. Ily and by tS"-tea tS"-tea began to thicken nnd Tf"8 ""b" bly; and by and by, after U" u-gnn u-gnn to got atrlngy and touikiM tho boy know that verr aoon ft toultl drop brittle and hard Into liiwP cold water In which ho waiWliB It, and then It would bo 'et ,l took two houra or moro WW Jh candr dropped "brlttlo nnJewklr Into tho cold water; but at halt waa done, and the bor took bli psttt " off tho fire and began pourltflt ou' Into the buttered pant to oi H flrat filled tho bltcult pam ut then tho dripping pant and neitlic pie pant; and, after that, all the til aau-ccra aau-ccra and cracked platca, and i!fl thcro wat taffy left In tho pot. Boiilad to uto all tort of old oddt aoitndt ot pall and cupa and platca tofwr hit candy into; and, at latt, II ' n" poured out and act to cool nt-doora. When tho taffr woa hard twagh to break, tha little bor beg '" "! and, ohl how good that la.'; did taitol I think ho ato a wholo paful at flrat, and part of a taucer ful afterword, and mrl that watn'l veijmuch! He had atlll all the bis piuiniT all tho bltcult tint and mott of tit pie platca that he hadn't even touded; and already al-ready ho began to feel ult bo didn't caro ao very much for taty, after nil. When hla father and gnrfather camo homo In tho evening the; exclaimed with aurprlte at tha qutdty ot tatty candy that waa lying tint on tho kitchen ahelvct, In the antry, and everywhere; and the lode told tho boy that he muit try to tat up tho taffy that bo had been utnxloua to make. Uut by thla time U boy waa "tired to death" of tatty, ud felt alck and queer, and didn't eta want to look nt a piece ot candr. Ntvcrtbetcif, the candy had to be cottuout of the war. Bo tho bor put It ill together and rolled It Into a 1 g Inland put It out on the back porch. Out on tho back porch It aa tunny md warm, howovcr; and tooit the til; began to melt, and the fllea began to iwarm about It, and all aorta ot things got atuck about It, and the anttle aald tho taffy ball mutt bo taken any llj- thla tlmo tho boy was ery rawk athamed ot that ball of candr, nl he determined deter-mined to put It out ot sight, hiding It nway uhero no ono coull Mo It and nik him "how ho liked U!y," He thought ut digging a hole t9, hiding It In tho ground, and he thought ot t)lng a ttona to It and tloilng It In thr brook, but he wat afraid that In cither of theae plncea It might bo found, and came moro reaarka about hla tondneta for tnlfr Se at thought for a long time, nnd finally ho gave It to the pig. Aa for the luile boy, be kept nnay from plggle I eta tell you, while there wnt any taffy UU. lie did not want any ono to a hla with plggle, plg-gle, while the enndy vat light; and no nnnder, tor they might havo mado romparltont, and atked valeh wat tho blggett ono, ou know. The Examiner, |
