thin-rinded

Updated: May 22, 2025

"Ah, that looks like the pie mother used to make," Ida said, as the landlady put it down. "Waal, I'd know. Seems to me the crust is a leetle too short. I've ben havin' pretty good luck lately; but this pumpkin weren't just the very best. It was one of them thin-rinded ones, you know. Pumpkins weren't extry good; weren't thunder enough, I reckon, this summer."

Hamlin Garland - A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West