PRINTERS’ PIE.
Old Jacob Wyckoff, a farmer whose place was just outside of town, had made a present of his largest yellow pumpkin to the editor of the village paper, and the editor wrote an item acknowledging the gift. But unfortunately the office boy who put it in type got it mixed with an item announcing the birth of a baby in the family of another subscriber. This is the way it appeared in print: — “ Our old friend Harry Townsend is celebrating the arrival of a fine boy at his house. The newcomer is the very image of its father. It is one of large cornfield variety, with huge humps all over it, and weighs fiftysix pounds. There isn’t a flaw in it anywhere, except a dent made by our fool office boy, and that doesn’t matter, as we are going to cut it up at once.’’
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 3 November 1906, Page 4
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147PRINTERS’ PIE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 3 November 1906, Page 4
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