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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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so well that he would al-low him speedily to return, never think-ing that for the success of this design itwas quite as dangerous to please him toowell as to fail in his profession. He re-membered that the King had expressedhis admiration of all of the sixteen dif-ferent pies with which he had served him,but had mentioned one cause for regret.A man could not eat sixteen pies regu-larly at each dinner, and it was a pity tolose the exquisite flavor of any one ofthem. lldefonso determined to inventone pie which should combine the quali-ties of the whole sixteen. Accordingly he lined an enormoussaucepan with fluted pastry, and withinthis he cunningly commingled mincedpigeons, meats, suet, partridges, quails,snipes, woodcocks, with sliced lemons,apples, pears, quinces, peaches, apricots,nectarines, melon, pine-apple, custard ap-ples, bananas, figs, pomegranates, cher-ries, almonds, raisins, plums, berries, cur-rants, candied citron, marmalade, jelly,preserves, spices, red wine from Oporto,
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CATHERINE READING BOOKS ON THE BLACK AKT. 570 HAMPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. and white wine from Spain, with sugar-plums of all flavors.It was a wonderful pie, and the odor which it diffusedwhile baking was so delicious and so penetrating that theKing and his retinue, when hardly in sight of the greatchimneys, put spurs to their horses, and came chargingdown the Lisbon road as though they heard before themthe challenging battle-cry of Santiago for Spain! The poor servants, who had hoped that, as the pie wasso enormous, they might all come in for a share of thefragments, were greatly disappointed. The King wouldmake his dinner of nothing else, and indeed the pie was acomplete bill of fare in itself. The rest of the royal fami-ly were obliged to content themselves with narrow slices,for the King ate fully half of the pastry. The two courtphysicians looked at one another knowingly, and neither ofthem retired that night, expecting every moment to be call-ed to his Majestys couch. But, w

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