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THE WITCH PIE.
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cook the ladder, too, in the pie. So then we laid in with Jim, the second night, and tore up the sheet all in little strings, and twisted them together, and long before daylight we had a lovely горе, that you could a hung a person with. We let on it took nine months to make it.

And in the forenoon we took it down to the woods, but it man with wooden leg carrying warming-pan and rifle
ONE OF HIS ANCESTERS.

wouldn't go in the pie. Being made of a whole sheet, that way, there was rope enough for forty pies, if we'd a wanted them, and plenty left over for soup, or sausage, or anything you choose. We could a had a whole dinner.

But we didn't need it. All we needed was just enough for the pie, and so we throwed the rest away. We didn't cook none of the pies in the washpan, afraid the solder would melt;