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He showed his genius at once. The spirited way in which he cried his pies, and his activity in going about with them, made him a favorite with the pie-buyers of the town; so that the old pie-man in a few weeks lost all his business, and shut up his shop. The boy served his baker more than a year, and sold so many pies and cakes for him as to save him from impending bankruptcy.
They are for Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble, the ducks, but there are enough to let you have one." "Why, you are a regular pie-man yourself; aren't you?" laughed Simple Simon, as he ate one of Nurse Jane's nice jam tarts. "Well, you might call me that," said the bunny uncle. "Though I s'pose a tart-man would be nearer right." "But there's something else," went on Simple Simon.
"Who is it you can't find?" asked the rabbit. "The pie-man," answered the funny, round-faced boy. "Don't you remember, it says in the book, 'Simple Simon met a pie-man going to the fair?" "Oh, yes, I remember," Uncle Wiggily answered. "What's next?" "Well, I can't find him anywhere," said Simple Simon. "I guess the pie-man didn't fall out of the book when I did."
He noticed, and no doubt with the hungry eyes of a growing boy, an old pie-man, who sold his pies about the streets in a careless, inefficient way, and the thought occurred to him that, if he had pies to sell, he could sell more of them than the ancient pie-man. He went to a baker and acquainted him with his thoughts on pie-selling, and the baker soon sent him out with a tray full of pies.
She has just made a good one: 'P is a pie-man, portly and proud, pugnaciously prattling' What's the rest of it, godmother? You tell them. I have forgotten." But Mrs. Sherman's rhyme was broken short in an astonished exclamation, as her glance fell on the Little Colonel. "Why, Lloyd Sherman!" she cried. "What have you been doing?
Little "Bo-Peep" led a woolly lamb and wept over its lost tail, for not a sign of one appeared on the poor thing. "Simple Simon" followed the pie-man, gloating over his wares with the drollest antics. The little wife came trundling by in a wheelbarrow and was not upset; neither was the lady with "rings on her fingers and bells on her toes," as she cantered along on a rocking-horse.
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