Fairly Won
THE only practical joke in which Richard Harris Barham (better known by
his nom-de-plume of Thomas Ingoldsby) ever personally engaged, was
enacted when he was a boy at Canterbury. In company with a schoolfellow,
D----, now a gallant major, he entered a Quakers' meeting-house; when,
looking round at the grave assembly, the latter held up a penny tart,
and said solemnly, Whoever speaks first shall have this pie.--Go thy
way, boy, said a drab-colored gentleman, rising; go thy way,
and------The pie's yours, sir! exclaimed D----, placing it before
the astonished speaker, and hastily effecting his escape.