Org and Little Bit loved to play in an old storehouse situated in the
corner of the yard in the rear of Gaitskill’s home. There was a reason.
Both loved sweets, and in that house was where Colonel Gaitskill stored
his famous ribbon-cane sirup.
This sweet, so famous in the State, is not marketable. When once it is
put in a barrel or other container, it cannot be moved or it will turn
to sugar. Even with the greatest care, it is pretty sure to turn sugary
before it is all used up. The sugar forms first a hard crust around the
inside of the barrel and around the spigot from which it is drawn.
Sometimes you can turn that spigot on full and the stream will be a tiny
thread of liquid sweetness which flows with exasperating slowness. A
moment later the sugary obstruction may break from around the spigot,
and after that, the flood!