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.



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