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Show UNABLE TO MANAGE THE PIE. Lad at Work for Farmer Took Too Large a Contract. An Ohio farmer hired u innawuy boy that came along and wanted work. At tho first meal there was custard pie on the table, and tho lad liked It ho woll that ho offetud to work for all tho.custnrd pie ho could eat every day The farmer took him up. On tho next day the hoy eat live pies and nothing else. On the next four) pies. On the third three. Ho stuck at threo for two days, and then dropped to two. At the end of tho week ho had hard work to got away with one, and at tho end of the tenth day the sight of a pie put him In a shiver. The fanner Insisted that he cat, and as ho Wouldn't he was horsewhipped, and that brought the matter Into court. The man was fined Ave dollars for cruelty to a boy, the boy was severely lectured for cruelty to custard plo, and while tho fanner went back home the lad moved on in seaich of a home whro plo of any sou was not known. |