Prazes Of Punkin Pi

-Punkiu pi iz the sass ov Nu England. They are vittles and drink, they are joy in the half shell, they are glory enuff for one day, and are good kold or waiBU) 1 up. I would like to be a boy again, ji 8t .or sixty minnettes, and eat myself phuil of the blessed old mixtur. Enny man who dont luv puukin pi, wants watching cluss, for he means to do somethin mean the fust good chance he kan git. Give me all the punkin pi i oould eat, when i waa a boy, an i didn't kare whether Sunday skooï kept that day or not. And now that I have grown up to manhood, and have run for the Legislature onoe, and only got beat 856 votes, and am thoroly marrid, thare aint nothin i kanker for wuss, and kan bury quicker, than two-thirda of a good old-fashioned punkin pi, an inch an a halff thik, and well smelt up with ginger and nutmeg. Punkin pi iz the oldest Amerikan beverage I kno ov, and ought to go down to po8terity with the trade mark ov our grandmothers on it ; but i am afrade it wont, for it is tuff even now to find one that tastes in the mouth at all