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pans full of flour, before we got through, and we got burnt pretty much all

over, in places, and eyes put out with the smoke; because, you see, we didn't

want nothing but a crust, and we couldn't prop it up right, and she would

always cave in. But of course we thought of the right way at last; which was

to cook the ladder, too, in the pie. So then we laid in with Jim, the second night,

and tore up the sheet all in little strings, and twisted them together, and long

before daylight we had a lovely rope, that you could a hung a person with.

We let on it took nine months to make it. ssssssssss

And in the forenoon we took it down to

the woods, but it wouldn't go in the pie. ssssssssss

Being made of a whole sheet, that way, there

was rope enough for forty pies, if we'd a ssssssssss

wanted them, and plenty left over for soup,

or sausage, or anything you choose. We ssssssssss

could a had a whole dinner. ssssssssss

But we didn't need it. All we needed was

just enough for the pie, and so we throwed

the rest away. We didn't cook none of the ssssssssss

pies in the washpan, afraid the solder would

melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass

warming-pan which he thought considerable ssssssssss

of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters

with a long wooden handle that come over ssssssssss

from England with William the Conqueror ssssssssss

in the Mayflower or one of them early ships

and was hid away up garret with a lot of ssssssssss

other old pots and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account

because they warn't, but on account of them being relicts, you know, and we

snaked her out, private, and took her down there, but she failed on the first pies,

because we didn't know how, but she come up smiling on the last one. We took

and lined her with dough, and set her in the coals, and loaded her up with rag-

rope, and put on a dough roof, and shut down the lid, and put hot embers ou

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