„ Boss, will you tell me how to make root beer ?" asked a coloured man of a clerk in a Woodward-avenue drug store, a day or two ago. .“Why, yes, lean. Take a hickory stick, three gallons of water, an old hat, a quart of molasses, a paper of tacks and a pound of pepper, and boil, skim and set in a clean place." “day dat again, boss, so L km disre'member.” The clerk repeated his directions, and the customer brought his list down on the counter with the exclamation: “ I sees whar I spoiled my whole hatch ! I left out do tacks J'*
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Western Star, Issue 787, 27 October 1883, Page 6 (Supplement)
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