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"I don't suppose Steve told you about the molasses I had with the 'J. K. outfit one winter." "No, he did n't tell me anything about it." "Well, that molasses was so thick that when you got too much on a flapjack, all you had to do was to give the jug a few turns and wind the molasses right up into it again. You could wrap it around the neck of the jug till next time if you wanted to.
"Oh, shut up, Ham!" and Rex threw a discarded flapjack at Ham's head, with such good aim that it landed squarely over his big mouth. "You are enough to give the dumps to a man with the tooth-ache." When the laugh that followed this admirable use of valuable ammunition had quieted down, Dickson turned to Mr. Conroyal. "I think I would like to have another look at that skin map," he said.
In his mind's eye he pictured himself sitting down to a meal of "mulligan" and sourdough flapjack in some friend's mining shack, and, if this dream came true, how quickly he would shape his course toward the spot he had been directed to by the ciphered note in the blue envelope! "I'd walk in on them like old Rip Van Winkle." He smiled and glanced at his dog.
"Some sure-enough queen," murmured Johnnie in naïve admiration, staring after her with open mouth. Clay smiled. He had an opinion of his own on that point. Johnnie Green gave an upward jerk to the frying-pan and caught the flapjack deftly as it descended. "Fust and last call for breakfast in the dining-cyar. Come and get it, old-timer," he sang out to Clay.
"Flapjack!" repeated the apple woman with scorn, as the children nestled down, one each side of her. "Yo' nice chillen pertendin' not to know yo' friends!" "What friends? What?" asked Emilie eagerly. "The fairy Slap-back. P'raps I didn't see her jest now, a-grinnin' over yo' shoulder." "Is she anybody to be afraid of?" asked Emilie, big-eyed.
The quickest bread to cook is the delectable flapjack, and it is quite exciting to toss it in the air, see it turn over and catch it again if you can. =Flapjacks= To make the batter, beat 1 egg and add 1-1/2 cups of milk, or 1 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of water; unsweetened condensed milk diluted according to directions on can may be used.
Sometimes I lay out upon the ground and devoured what I could get, from a plate made of a flapjack, and drank the running water, and slept under the same rug as my servant. It was all in a days work.
The trail, which turns men into the same blankets and makes them brothers, was the great leveller of distinctions, as he had come to learn. So he flopped a flapjack and held his tongue. "Why don't you waltz in and win?" Del demanded, insistently. "Don't you cotton to her? I know you do, or you wouldn't come back to cabin, after bein' with her, a-walkin'-like on air.
"Why so?" queried Mr. Adams, examining his bread. "'Cause you're bread eaters, 'stead o' bein' flap-jackers. By that I take it you've not been up into the flapjack country yon," and he jerked his head in the direction of the foothills and mountains. "When a man makes his squar' meals out o' flapjacks an' sow-belly, then he can call himself a miner."
'Seth Green was prob'ly the pick of the flock; he married a Wilkerson Sarah Wilkerson good cretur, she was one of the likeliest heifers that was ever raised in old Stoddard, everybody said that knowed her. She could heft a bar'l of flour as easy as I can flirt a flapjack. And spin? Don't mention it! Independent? Humph!
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