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VISIT TO CALIFORNIA. serve for us,
and with which we volume
of his agreeable little
"At This
breakfast
we
A
among
had,
article at breakfast
will take leave
:
other things, pie.
was one of Mr. Emerson's
him now. He who declined it, and also declined But Mr. Mr. Emerson remonstrated, with humorous empha sis, thrusting the knife under a piece of the pie, and
weaknesses.
pie
stood before
help somebody from and then one or two others, who he too declined. then Mr. offered
to
;
;
'
'
!
;
putting the entire weight of his character into his '
manner,
but Mr.
,
what
is
pie for ?
'
'
A near friend of mine, cars with Emerson,
the refreshment of
a lady, was once in the and when they stopped for the passengers he was very
desirous of procuring something at the station for her solace. Presently he advanced upon her
with a cup of tea in one hand and a wedge of such a wedge She could pie in the other, !
hardly have been more dismayed sar's cunei, or
wedges
of soldiers,
charge against her. Yet let me say here that
if
one of
Ce
had made a
pie, often foolishly
a good creature, at the right time and in angles of thirty or forty degrees. In semi
abused, circles
is
and quadrants
much
it
may sometimes prove
But here was Emerson, a hopelessly confirmed pie-eater, never, so far as I remember, complaining of dyspepsia;
too
for delicate stomachs.