| Show RATHER ABSENT MINDED the protea bior thought the under pie chuat wan little touch A certain one of our scientific men a man whom you cant help knowing if you have had much business with the smithsonian institution has the reputation of being extremely absent mind ed says the washington star I 1 lont believe most of the stories they tell about him but here is one on whose I 1 am willing to stake my best bonnet hes a married man this scientific person and his wife is a good housekeeper she is an excellent cook too but she prefers to buy most of her pastry ready made she bought a pie the other day a juicy pie a blueberry pie in fact all day long it lay on the pantry shelf in one of thin pasteboard plates bakery pies always come in its juice gradually soaked through the lower crust you know how blueberry pies do and alien the lady of the house that is to say the cook put it on the dinner table the pasteboard plate went with it the scientific mans wife cut the pie and to make the handling of it easier cut the pasteboard plate too the scientific man took his slice of pie and ate it meditatively his wife kept silence lie ate the top crust and the blue berries and the bottom crust and the pasteboard slice till he had eaten about half then his look of inward bontem gradually changed to surprise ind then to mild distress my dear he said looking up his under crust just a little tough |
