People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Seven Pieces of Pie. [ARTICLE]

Seven Pieces of Pie.

A very successful business man was fond of relating the following incident of his boyhood experience. His mother placed him with a family of Friends on a farm in Delaware. At dinner, the day a(ter his arrival, he declined turnips, whereupon the good lady of the household, thinking that he was anticipating the dessert, said, -with a nod toward the center of the table: "If thee doesn’t eat turnips, thee can’t have pie?’ But the boy’s aversion was genuine, and he held out from day to day, till, on the seventh day, the just woman said: "Samuel, I see thee can’t eat turnips; here is thy pie.” and she took from the cupboard the seven pieces of pie he had forfeited during the week.—Golden Days.