Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1903-02-20
An olD SETTLER LOVED PIE.
He Used to Have q Craving
tor all Kinds Of Pie Except
Huckleberry Pie.
In the Following Article He Tells
Why He Dislikes the
Huckleberry Pie.

why he D1SllkeS the
Huckleberry Pie.
The following sketch was written by
an old Cantonite years ago and he gives
opinion his about :boarding.house pie
that may find a sympathetic echo in the
breast of some other ambitious lover of
Somewhere down in my internal
economy there is q spot that has con.
slant and tender longing for pie, and
a. love for pie has been long thought
to be shining mark of genius, have
been rather proud oft l think I in.
herited my appetite for pie from a poor
but honest ancestor, who had nothing
else to leave me. Some men would
not be grateful for little thing like
that; but am.
My great thirst was noticed at an ear.
ly age. It was not noticed by myself
80 much as by my parents. 1t often at.
tracted their attention, and they saw
with deep concern sometimes that
left . painfully large void in pie after
had communed with it for any
length of time. They reminded me
often that I was too young to hold
more than an undived half interest in
a full grown pie and that an inordinate
thirst for pie even of home manufac.
ture, was liable to lead a person to woe
and dyspepsia.
They advised me to shun pie, 90
took the pie and gave the advice to the
poor, and from my boyhood have con
tinued to stand pie a. long a. q piece
remained.
There is brand of pie, however that
have been wsaned away from. lear
sit calmly by and see another eat il
without feeling any pangs of envy. i
refer to the huckleberry pie that il
manufactured for the trade only.
Previous to the year 70 had beer
eating huckelberry pie with perfect
composure, but there was then 9
change. While l was engaged with q
quarter section of the brand Of pie re-
ferred to in a railroad pie factory and
emporium. and wearing the
lad smile I usually wear when eat pie
1 bit with startling suddenness into q
new variety of long blue.bug which
probably had been put in to add .eclat
to the pie. I bit into it in . rather of
way. The bug was Of course
of the event but was not
I was at first startled, and then I be.
came painfully embarrassed. My taste
had not been cultivated for that sort of
bug and acting on the impulse of the
got up and went hurriedly
away, forgetting to stop at the cashiers
desk to pay for the pie.
:, Since that memorable event in my
career a GOODNESS has sprung up between
me and the huckleberry pie. Ny
friends have noticed this popularity Of
mine, and they do not now press huck.
leberry pie upon me. They know that
I am more joyous and debonair without
1t.
Some years ago I made the acquaint-
ance of q pie shall not soon forget It
produced q marked impression upon
me but that was more than I was able
to do with it.. I met it at cheerful
house in which I passed a
few happy months with half dozen
congenial spirits like myself. The
mistress of the boarding
house brought it on the table one day,
wearing at the same time bright and
beautiful smile. such as she seldom
could afford to wear at meal times.
One of the happy spirits of our social
board took up the pie knife in grace.
full easy way and essayed to cut the pie
which had been placed before him. 1t
had been a longtime between pies in
that house and the pie carver was
watched with general interest. There
was fear that he would select the big
gest piece for himself; that was the rea.
son we watched him with general in.
terest. He made one attempt to cut
the pie and then his face grew sad. The
smile he wore in the beginning autered
for q moment and then went out and
with deep drawn sigh he pushed the
pie to the next man. We each tried to
cut it and gave it up in the same way
and passed it along on its sad and silent
journey. It was the toughest thing l
ever tried to put knife into 1t came
out of the contest with few scars. It
was plainly intended for a long seige.
At last the procession proceeded sadly
out of the dining room without pie.
Well, that pie continued to come Oh the
table every day during the next week,
but its old acquaintance did not again
,eek to. pry into it's mysteries; we did
not care to disturb its repose. One or
Two new boarders came in and 1t their
irst appearance attempted. to cut it,
but after a moment they desisted. Aft.
sr q stroke at it with the knife they
,eemed to change their minds about
pie But it was different with
} red nosed bosrder from Hawleville
BY the name Of Briggs. He had an eye
hat denoted great strength of purpose
and a breath that sometimes whispered
If gin, He seemed to have thirst
for pie and when he pulled our. old &C.
luaintance toward him with a jocular
sir the congregation looked at one an.
,ther with smile that indicated psr.