THE GREAT AMERICAN PIE COMPANY By Ellis Parker Butler Author Of “Pigs Is Pigs” Illustrated By Will Crawford New York Mcclure, Phillips & Co. MCMVII Copyright 1904 by The Century Co. CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER ONE If you take a pie and cut it in two, the track of your knife will represent the course of Mud River through the town of Gloning, and that part of the pie to the left of your knife will be the East Side, while the part to the right will be the West Side. Away out on the edge of the pie, where the town fritters away into the fields and shanties on the East Side, dwells Mrs. Deacon, and a fatter, better-natured creature never trod the crust of the earth or made the
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