Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-06-20

ger IN pumpkin p&eSy says MoSeA
"Of course"
"What furY'
ITO add to their goodness"
"But It don't add to their goodness
not with folks who've got more tasto
than a Govt It's all fool bizness. and
where it started from don't know. 4
pumpkin pie Is a pumpkin pie. and you
can't neither make gingerbread nor
bran soup out Of it"
His words made Adiniron mad, and
the two had jaw lastin' fur half an
hour. AS both were church members
they didn't come to blows, but they
was never to be good friends ag'in
The next time they met Moses Wheeler
tried to look a. mean as he could and
stuck up his nose and said:
"Waal, Adiniron. are you turnin' out
many pumpkin pies with skunk's cab
bage for seasonin' nowadaysT'
mot many. Noses" said Adiniron,
with CLINT In his eye, 'only Jest 'nuff
to feed the town fool on"
That was the way the thing went on.
After three years OF argument and dis
pute Moses weakened enough to say
that leetle nutmeg grated into pump
kin helped the taste OF the pie, but he
wouldn't yield hairs breadth on GIN
ger. II there was a huskin, bee. a
barn raisin' or log rollin' them two
men was aIlus there, and jest as soon
as they sighted each other the dispute
began It finally split up the town
into gingerites and nutmegites, and
there was a heap Of hard feelin's. At
various times the ministers tried to
bring about reconciliation. They'd
20 to Adiniron and ask him fur the
good Of the community to weaken on
his ginger, and they'd 60 to Moses and
tell him that II the spire Of the Bap-
list church was ever to be finished
he'd got to let pumpkin pies go and
talk Of doughnuts or turnoverA Both
men would think It over and promise
and agree and shake hands the next
time they met and call 1t all of. They'd
meet at the postoffice. and they'd shake
hands and purtand to be sorry, but II
wouldn't be two minits before Adm
iron would say:
Moses, reckon you've heard OF
that fellow Milton. who wrote Para
disc Lost =
"Of course"
mighty smart man. wam's her
you bet"
"Waal. his wife used ginger in her
pumpkin piesr
That would bust everything up ag'in
and the old quarrel would be resumed
and probably at the next prayer meet
In Noses would ask heaven to beal
with them Of depraved tastes, and
Adiniron would appeal that them who
didn't know nuthin' shouldn't be cut
OF In their ignosanet like green bass
wood tres.
X was only few nights ago that the
end came. Both men had got old and
feeble and ailin' In body, but theil
minds was still sot az hard as ever
Adiniron had been talkin' most all day
with windmill man. and Moses had
had a tin peddler at his house ove'
night, and both had got heap Of new
Information. When they saunteref
into the postoface at Z o'clock Adm
iron puts on a grin and says:
Moses, you've heard Of them pyra
mids Of Egypt, reckonF
sKnow 'em like q book" says Moses
''but they wasn't built Of your kind O
pumpkin piesr'
mo, they wasn't but the men VIII
built 'em was fed on my kind Of pump
kin pies. I've got the hggers right her
| Of Jest how much ginger was uset
every week. II It hadn't been fur cir
ger thered hev been no pyramids; new
or could hev boon built on plain pump
kin pies In all this world"
'Nebbs NOT" says Moss. but then
pyramids are no great shakes. Mebb
Won are awnre that Christopher Colum
bus diskiversd American
i've heard 20"
"And what did be d, 1t orr
ambition"
mot muchi Adiniron Tompkins, ~
rot bar1s Of proof right In my coattal
pocket that be did II on pumpkin pissI
with ginger In emf
i! mot any-ouly plain"
Il don't believe itr'
'Then you're a mewlr
Don't call me namesv'
"And don't bristle up to mel"
Then Of sudden Moses went whit
in the face and took on queer Tool
and purity soon It was found that b
had stroke Of paralysis. They too
him home. and he died that night. bt
afore passin' away he looked up at b
wife in 4 way that meant plain puml
lin pied Adiniron was Jest used U
over IL He no longer had any one
disputes with, and sven Mghtnin' nc
men didn't seem to care rap whetl
q his paes were plain or gingered.
wasn't over month before ho wAs z
~ dyiR bed. he was couGcioQp
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