Cherry-pie

Cherry-pie was a standing dish at our house with which to celebrate the Declaration of Independence.

A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

You see I am really a devil, David, to make dear, old Cherry-pie unhappy!

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

"Cherry-pie would think it was horrid in me not to stay with her, when I've been away so long."

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

Elizabeth's governess, Miss White -- called by Elizabeth, for reasons of her own, "Cherry-pie" -- had completely surrendered to his brown eyes; the men in the Maitland Works toadied to him;

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

Uncle told Cherry-pie I could have whatever was proper, and I got these lovely gloves.

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

She sat there, smiling to herself, eager to tell Nannie that she had argued Cherry-pie into admitting that the plan of "living on the principal" was at least feasible; and also that she had sounded her uncle, and believed that if she and David and Cherry-pie attacked him, all together, they could make him consent!

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

In Miss White's room, Elizabeth announced her intention of entering a convent, and it was then that Cherry-pie fumbled: she took the convent seriously!

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

Only at the landing of the toll-house, when poor distracted Cherry-pie bade the boys get a carriage, did she speak:

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

Elizabeth was twisting her left hand about to get different lights on her ring, which she had managed to slip on her finger when Cherry-pie was not looking.

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

"I'm going to take Cherry-pie some ice-cream," he said; and all the way back he was so absorbed in trying -- unsuccessfully -- to keep the pallid pink contents of the mussy paper box from dripping on his clothes that he was able to forget Elizabeth's rudeness.

The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901