Family Pie

A large pumpkin pie. (New England.)

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1818.

	But give me the feast where no knives and forks clatter,
	Where each to the neat cherry table draws nigh,
	And carves for himself from the broad earthen platter
	A slice of the sweet yellow family pie.

Note.—Family pie is, in the New England dialect, nearly synonymous with mammoth pie.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 7: from the Columbia Centinel.

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