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Title: Story of the mince pie
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gates, Josephine Scribner, 1859-1930
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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apples on the ground under the trees—only the seeds. Of course they gladly gave him such asimple thing, and as he cut the fruit theneighbour children swarmed about him. 111 THE STORY OF From one place to another he went, al-ways adding to his store of seeds. Some generous farmers gave him also cut-tings of peach, pear, and plum trees, andgrape vines. Day after day, day after day, he cut upthe fruit, while the children sat at his feetand listened to thrilling tales of what he hadseen in his travels. Of the Indians withtheir gay blankets and feathers, of theircamps where they lived in the forests. Of their dances and war paint; theirmany coloured, beaded necklaces and jin-gling, silver chains and bracelets. Of theirbeady-eyed babies strapped to boards. Of the wolves which came out at night towatch him as he sat by his fire; of the beau-tiful deer who ran across his path. He sang funny songs for the childrenand taught them all sorts of games. When it came time to go on, they begged 112
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The children sat at his feet and listened to thrilling tales ARY JOHNNY APPLESEED him to stay. Never before had they been soamused, but on he went, and when his bagswere full, and he had a goodly store of food,he started on to carry out the splendidthought. Oh, it was a grand thing he wasgoing to do. The little boat went on and on, till houseswere no more to be seen. Splendid forestslined the banks here and there. Then hepaused, for this was what he was seeking—a place where no one lived. He landed and went about with a bag ofseeds, and when he reached an open place ina forest he planted seeds and cuttings of thetrees and vines; then wove a brush fenceabout them to keep the deer away. He thenhastened back to his boat and drifted on. In many, many places he landed andplanted seeds, and all the orchards of theOhio and Mississippi Valley we owe to thisman. THE STORY OF Years after when settlers came lookingfor a place to live they chose these spotswhere, to their great surprise, they f

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