People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Maine Good Fare. [ARTICLE]

Maine Good Fare.

Uncle Bill Merrill gave au oldfashioned husking-bee last week, soreports the Byron correpondent of the Oxford Democrat, who lets his memory and his imagination run away with him in this wise: ‘‘Baked beans, puddings, pies, cakes and sauces and apples that would melt in your mouth. Loaves of brown bread stood so high and so large on the table that Freel Abbott (six feet high) had to stand on tiptoe to get sight of his partner on the other side. Forty guests surrounded the table, while sixteen babies were laid away in beds and cubbies to revel in innocent dreams. After supper music from four viols and a tambourine, with frequent choruses from the babies, made old age and youth forget all care and sorrow. Abraham, a three years’ cripple, was so elated he took the floor and gave a splendid exhibition of fancy clog dancing, while George Maher wore a hollow in the doorstone dancing.”—Lewiston Journal.