Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-23
PIE.
By small Boy.

By q small Boy.
A pie as q part of speech is 3 pron5un.
as it stands IN the place of . noun, not
very objective, most always neuter, IN
less too old, and agrees with any person
who is not sick.
They are generally round one way
and very fat the other. When they are
cut they assume . triangular shape,
until they are eaten, and then We don't
know what shape they have They are
about the only three-cornersd articles
of food thai We have except beech-nuts.
A three-cornered piece of pie isabout
as convenient thing to eat rs one ever
closed teeth on, and licked ones lips
afterwards That is sharpend foremost.
The only trouble is you don't know
when to bite it of, for the mouth natur-
ally widens as the wedge goes in. The
composition of pies is dough and some
thing else-whas that something else is
or should be has never been definitely
settled.
You can make them out of most any
thing that grows in the garden, except
thistles and burdocks. A boy told me
that his aunty made . thistle pie, but
the boy said lie one day before and I
cannot trust him since.
"Punkin" pies had q great run.
Probably at one time they we're the
most popular pie afloat. It is said-and
We can't doubt the veracity of the state
ment-that Robinson Orusoe made the
first punkin pies. Don't know what he
made them of, but will write and ask
him. 1t is taken for granted that FRI
day made them out of eocoanuts and
eel-grass, as that was quite . fayorite
dish with his forefathers; but they have
given it up since they took to eating
the missionaries.
I have seen punkin pies made out of
apples that liked very much. 1 re-
member one I saw once: it was not q
very large pie, but it was got up in
great style. It was made on . white
plate with blue edge. The under
crust was made Of dough, and vas very
thin; the inwards we're Just lovely. They
were made of what they call mincemeat
and little sugar sprinkled over it The
top or upper crust was made out of
dough rope-yarn, laid across like the
Stats of bed. Oh, it looked lovely.
Around the edge was hoop of dough
laid partly over the edge of the plate,
and about an inch on the fragmentaly
meat 1t was ornamented around the
outer part Of the hoop with an impress
sion made by pressing it all over with q
set of false teeth before it was baked.
1t was q great appetizer. you better be-
level They sacrificed it at 3 tea-shine,
and it sold readily at four cents trian-
gle. cash on delivery.
There are a great many people Who
like pies, but seldom eat them, unless
tits because they can't get them. I
don't think the common apple pie is
very hard to make; for made one once
out of cranberries. and all who tasted
it said it was very nice. 1 tasted the
most of it myself. I know enc boy who
was very fond of pies, in fact, rather
than do without them, he would hook
them from his mother-in-law, il he had
one. but he hadn't. Anyway, he was
awful fond of them; he was very apt to
take bite out of one If it was in his
way. One day there was pie made on
purpose for him, and put in his way,
and he put it out of his own way and
everybody else's. I never liked cay
enne pepper since; it's too warm.
Tarts are pies children. and I'm fond
of children, that is tart children. lean
eat tarts with my eyes shut. and never
wink half an eye full. 1t is said that
mince pies made out of rhubarb will
give you the nightmare, but if anybody
will provide the minees, will willingly
risk the mares.
Once I read of q pie that had two
dozen dark eolored birds in it, and after
it was baked and opened the birds we're
not dead hardly little bit, for they he
gan to sing melodiously. 1t was set
before the King. History does not say
whether he ate the pie or not, after the
birds flew away in'o the next yard but
suppose he did, if he was hungry. I
would have eaten it.