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The mystery of the brawn and muscle of New England is no less wrapped up in pies. But don't hesitate. Pitch in. There's something about this air that turns a nightly mixture of mince-pies, pumpkin-pies, custard-pies, lemon-pies, and apple-pies, with cheese, into a substance as heavenly light as fresh-fallen manna.
Mince-pies, and cranberry-pies, and lemon-pies, and the whole long catalogue of pies, were equal favorites of his, and huge pieces of them had a way of not being found. Poor Tode, his training-school had been a sad one; the very first principle of honesty was left out of his street education, and the only rule he recognized was one which would assist him in not being discovered.
Then I looked at the bottle I thought was the lemon extract, and, by jinks! what do you think?" "I don't feel up to the arts of creatin' lemon-pies," confessed the miner, warming himself before the fire. "What happened?" "You have to have lemon extract you know that?" said Keno. "All right." "Well, by jinks, Jim, it wasn't lemon extract after all! It was hair-oil!"
"Let us hope so," concluded Bradley, with unabated gravity. "And, now that you have consented, let me add from my own experience that Miss Minty's lemon-pies alone are worthy of any concession." The dinner-hour came.
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