Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — TOO MUCH THANKSGIVING PIE. [ARTICLE]

TOO MUCH THANKSGIVING PIE.

A small boy sat on the top of the fencj.' And thought ho was quite a bright fellow. For he counted the days till Thanksgiving time, And he counted the pumpkins yellow. iAnd he said, as he. sat in royal state [ On top of the fence so high. t“A pumpkin pie most highly I rate," I And he .mused on the pleasures Of by ] and by. And now near at hand was Thanksgiving Day, And the kitchen was all in a whirl, And his mother was busy as busy could bo. Likewise his aunt and the servant girl. (To take a pie, this small boy intended, • For what was one pie more or less; iNo doubt-his mother would be offended, : But wholhe culprit, she’d never guess. ■His chance soon came, for a neighbor | came in To ask for the loan of the rolling-pin, And when none were looking or standing by This dreadful boy ran off with a pie. [The pie was hot and burned him so, :And running so fast he stubbed his toe, ,'That over he fell,’hot pie and all, ,Aud loudly did for his mother call. (She sadly looked at her pride and joy, (And separated pie from boy; 'He cried very hard at having done wrong, ißut he knew he’d cry more before very long. jNeit day at dinner all wondered why This small boy was debarred from pie; 'But his mother and he alone kuew the reason, And he thought their remarks quite out of season.