Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Pie on the Massachusetts Escutcheon. [ARTICLE]

Pie on the Massachusetts Escutcheon.

All Boston eatetli of the pie. The broker and hanker climb the case stool and belt their pie and coffee. The shop-girl carries in her lunch-box from hex 1 frowsy boarding-house a triangle of pie. The newsboy hath his pie in his mind as he trudges through the storm Our Supreme Court Judges eat pie with gust*. Pie is the masterpiece of New England home cookery. In Maine they still make.those deep apple pieces —clover-flavored, generous, ampte’pies that one can make a flavorous meal of. The Indian in our Massachusetts coat-of-orms holds a pie-knife in his hand, and our State motto, is properly translated, reads.: “We will have a piece of pie if we have to light for it”— BoutonCorrespondence.