Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1903-02-20
An olo 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.

THE following sketch was written by
an old Cantonite years ago and he gives
opinion his about :boarding.house pie
that may find sympathetic echo In the
breast of some other ambitious lover of
pie.-Ed.]
Somewhere down in my internal
economy there is 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, l have
been rather proud oft think I in
herited my appetite for pie from poor
but honest ancestor, who had nothing
else to leave me. Some men would
not be grateful for q little thing like
that; bu. am. b..
My great thirst was noticed at an ear
ly age. It was not noticed by myself
so much as by my parents. It often 1t.
tracted their, attention. and they saw
with deep concern sopetimes that l
left = painfully large void in . pie after
had communed with it for any
length Of time. They reminded me
often that ! was too young to hold
more than IN undived half interest in
. full grown pie and that an inordinste
thirst for pie even of home manufac.
ture. was liable to lead q person to woe
and dyspepsia.
They advised me to shun pie, 20 I
took the pie and gave the advice to the
poor, and from my boyhood I have con-
tinued to stand pie as long q piece
remained.
There is brand of pie, however that
I have been wsaned away from. l can
sit calmly by and see another eat it
without feeling any pangs Of envy. I
refer to the huckleberry pie that is
for the trade only.
Previous to the year 70 had been
eating huckelberry pie with perfect
but there was then q
change. While 1 was engaged with a
quarter section Of the brand OF pie re-
ferred to in railroad pie factory and
sandwich emporium. and wearing the
lad smile usually wear when I eat pie.
[ 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 q rather off
handed way. The bug was of course
of the event but was not.
| was at first startled, and then l be-
came painfully embarrassed. My taste
had not been cultivated for that sort of
bug and acting on the impulse of the
I got up apd went hurriedly
away. forgetting to stop at the cashiers
lesk to pay for the pie.
Since that memorable event in my
career a coolness has sprung up between
me and the huckleberry pie. Ny
friends have noticed this popularity of
mine, and they do not now press huck-
cherry pie upon me. They know that
| am more joyous and debonair without
i. ...
Some years ago I made the scqusint-
lnce of pie I shall not soon forget. 1t
produced marked impression upon
ne but that was more than I was able
% do with it. I met it at y cheerful
house in which I passed q
'ew happy months with q half dozen
spirits like myself. The
mistress of the boarding
aouse brought it on the table one day,
at the same time q bright and
smile. such "a she seldom
Gould afford to wear at meal times.
)ne Of the happy spirits of our social
BOARD took up the pie knife in . grace.
'ul easy way and essayed to cut the pie
which had been placed before him. It
1ad been longtime between pies in
hat house and the pie carver was
with general interest. There
was fear that he would select the big
gest piece for himself; that was the rea.
,on we watched him with general in.
terest. He made one attempt to cut
The pie and then his face grew sad. The
'mile he wore in the beginning hutered
Tor a moment and then went ont and
with deep drawn sigh he pushed the
pie to the next man. We each tried to
,ut it and gave it up in the same way
and passed it along on its sad and silent
Journey. It was the toughest thing II
ever tried to put knife into. 1t came
out of the contest with few scars. It
was plainly intended for q long seige.
At last the procession proceeded sadly
,ut of the dining room without pie.
Well, that pie continued to come Oh the
able every day during the next week,
out its old scqusintances did not again
'eek to pry into it's mysteries; We did
not care to disturb it's repose One or
;wo new boarders came in and Al their
irst appearance attempted to cut it,
out after moment they desisted. Aft
,r a stroke at it with the knife they
'eemed to change their minds about
pie. But it was different with
! red nosed boarder from Hawleville
~ the name of Briggs. He had an eye
hat denoted great strength of purpose
md breath that sometimes whispered
If gin. He seemed to have a thirst
'or pie and when he pulled our old &C.
Iuaintance toward him with = jocular
Iir the congregation looked at one an.
,ther with smile that indicated Dor.