Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19

short with his tongue hanging out. Then
he thought a long time and wrote a long pre-
scrlption and when Prince Pietooth ran with
1T TO the corner drug store the clerk burst out
laughing and said, Excuse ME, your highness,
but you've come to the wrong shop. This pre-
scription calls for lemon piel"
So every day they had a lemon pie, and
the baby Prince had piece and his papa had
piece, and his mamma had a piece, and |
wish l could say that they lived happily ever
afterward, but it would not be true.
Because, shortly after this, the twin Prin-
oesses grew large enough to have place at
the table, and they developed an appetite for
cream pie, and because they were the young
pie for dinner every day. And not long after
that the King died, and the Queen came to
hive with Princess Sugartart and help manage
the palace, and as she had always had just
what she wanted at home, she ordered the
cook to make prune pie. But the third day,
when the prune pie came to the table, it
made everybody terribly cross. The Prince
SAID he would be master in his own palace
and he would have apple pie, The Princess
said prune pie made her sick. Norah and
Gretchen threatened to leave again, and the
baby Prince and twin Princesses cried into
the prune pie till it tasted so salty even
Grandma Queen wouldn't touch it.
So the pie question became a question of
state, and was referred to the prime minister,
and the question was, "If the various mem
bers of family cannot agree on any partic-
ular pie what kind of pie shall they have?'
After a great deal of thought the prime min
lister, who was very wise old man, answered,
Let each have little of all and all little Of
EACH Mince pie"
So the next day they had mince pie, and in
celebration of their peace and happiness they
invited the prime minister to dinner All
went well until dessert, but when the pie was
placed before the Prince he cut it once across,
and then across sideways, and then criss-
cross diagonally and then dagonally the other
way, and then he threw up his hands in hor
ror. He had cut the pie four times across
which, everybody knows, is as much as any
pie should be cut. The result was that there
was one piece for himself, as the head of the
family, one for the Princess Sugartart to CON
sole her for the loss Of her apple pie, one for
the Queen Grandmother to make up for her
prunes,. one each for Norah and Gretchen TO
keep them from leaving, one for the baby
Prince, and piece apiece to appease the twin
Processes, but--but there was no piece for the
prime minister The family had become too
large for the pie!
The prime minister was terribly offended,
and in great anger. The Prince was terribly
mortified, and the family ate their mince pie
amid gloom and confusion.
Now some folks say that it is not impossi
bic to cut pie into nine equal parts and that
the Prince should have done so; but if you
think. it SO easy. just try it. Other folks say
that he should have cut one of the pieces in
two but to whom could he have served these
two beggarly bits without insulting them?
Certainly not to the twins, as had been sug-
gested, for they were far more apt to demand