A Pie Supper with a Young Man

When Katie was a teenager the local school held a pie supper fund raiser. It seemed like the most special occasion of her young life to her. She was going to bake a pie to be sold there that night ... and, hopefully, with it she would get the chance to impress some handsome young man.

The Price family (who had raised her since the time her parents had died) had given her a pretty new dress to wear to the supper. Katie was greatly excited about the prospects of that evening. When the afternoon of the supper finally arrived she already had her beautifully baked pie ready to take to the supper. Before herself getting ready to go, she finished her regular chore of milking the cows.

At the pie supper that evening a very nice and handsome young man bought her pie ... and with it the priviledge of eating it with her. She was beaming with pride in her accomplishment. However, upon her arrival back home after the supper had ended she discovered her mistake! In her excitement to get ready for the supper she had forgotten to take off the big, wide pair of old work shoes she had worn walking through the barnyard to milk the cows! Lacking the aid of a long mirror in the dim coal oil lamplight of their house she failed to notice her mistake. She was horribly embarrassed to find that she had been dressed as she was in the company of that young man.

2014-01-20 12:26:01 RBaxter

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