Applie and Orangie

There once was a man and it’s a sad story really because his wife died and left him with a little girl. Now time passes and the man meets this other woman and she also has a little girl, so the man and the woman get married.

Now the man gave the girls pet names, he called his own daughter Applie and he called his wife’s daughter Orangie. Now the man really loved little Orangie but the woman didn’t care for Applie at all and if there was any work to do about the house then little Applie had to do it. Now the man didn’t know how his wife was treating little Applie, it was all done behind his back while he was out at work.

Now one day Applie and Orangie are playing down the garden the way young girls do when the mother discovers she’s no milk. She calls down the garden.

Little Applie comes running up to the house.

Applie looks at the jug.

So Applie takes this fancy looking jug with the money and she’s away to the dairy. She goes in and she gets the jug filled with milk and she’s just on her way out the door but there’s a bit of the step sticking up and she trips and falls headlong onto the pavement. And the jug smashes into a thousand smithereens. And she’s sitting there and she’s bawling and crying and this man comes up.

So she tells him.

So the man takes her hand and they’re away to the shop. He buys a jug and then they go to the dairy and he gets it filled with milk. Well she thanks him and she’s away home.

Now when she goes into the kitchen her mother is outside putting the washing on the line. So she puts the jug of milk on the table and she’s away down the garden to play with Orangie.

Now when the woman comes in she puts the washing basket down and she sees this foreign looking jug.

So little Applie comes running up to the house and she knows full well what it’s about.

Applie starts to explain but the woman doesn’t want to know.

Little Orangie comes running up to the house.

So she’s away down the garden to the shed crying all the way and she finds the axe and she comes back up to the house.

Now the woman’s standing there with this big block of wood and she clutches Applie and she lays her down and she takes a swipe at her head with the axe and she cuts it clean off. Then she chops the body into small pieces and she scrapes what’s left of Applie into a bowl.

So Orangie picks up the bones and she’s away down the garden and she buries them.

Now in the kitchen there’s this big pot, this big black pot, on the fire and the woman rakes the contents of the bowl into the pot.

And she adds peas and barley and vegetables and she’s stirring away.

Now at dinner time the man comes back from work and the woman’s standing there by the pot.

So the man sits at the table and the woman ladles soup into his bowl and puts it on the table. He lifts the spoon and what does he see but Applie’s little finger with the ring he gave her for her birthday.

He takes the finger and he gives it a throw and he’s going off his head. It just struck him what has happened. But what can he do, it won’t bring little Applie back, and in those days people used to keep quiet about things like that.

Well time passes and it comes to a couple of days before Christmas and the man comes home from work at dinnertime.

Now on Christmas Eve the dove is sitting on the chimney pot and suddenly she flies off up the street. Now the doors of the shops are open for the late shoppers. She flies through the door of this huge jewellery shop and she sits on the counter and looks at the man.

Well the man is amazed.

So the dove starts to sing.

That was beautiful and the dove took the finest pocket watch in the shop then she flew out of the door and up the street. She flew through the door of a huge toyshop and sat on the counter looking at the young girl.

Well the young girl is flabbergasted.

So the dove starts to sing.

Oh! That was beautiful and the young girl gave the dove the finest pocket watch in the shop then she flew out of the door and up the street. She flew through the door of a huge ironmongers shop and sat on the counter looking at the man.

Well the man is astounded.

So the dove starts to sing.

That was beautiful and the man gave the dove the biggest sharpest axe in the shop then she flew out of the door and back down the street to the house and sat on the chimneypot.

Now in the house there’s the man and the woman and Orangie and they’re all busy getting Christmas Dinner ready for next day.

So the man walks into the chimney, it’s one of those big open chimneys, and he looks up and stretches out him hands.

The dove drops the pocket watch and it falls down into his hands.

He’s never had anything like it.

So Orangie walks into the chimney and she looks up and holds out her hands.

The dove drops the doll and it falls into her arms.

It’s the most beautiful doll she has ever seen.

Now the woman is getting excited because they have both got the good presents.

So the woman rushes into the chimney with her hands out looking up to see what she’s going to get.

So the woman goes in a little further. Then Applie drops the axe, it cuts the woman’s head off and it falls into the big black pot. And guess what everyone had for their Christmas Dinner.