Adirondack Life

A WILDER TIME

lmanzo Wilder and his brother and sisters had been very naughty. Before she left for Uncle Andrew’s for a week, Mother specifically told her cubs, “Don’t eat all the sugar.” And what did they do as soon as their parents were out of sight? Whipped up some ice cream with six cupfuls of worth-its-weight-in-gold sugar—not the homemade maple kind, but fancy white stuff from the store. Later that same day they made pull candy with even more. The next day they made another batch of ice

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