Bran pie


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Posted by Alex Forbes on January 02, 2006 at 23:58:34 from 68.190.191.105 user Pitsligo.

I don't mean to interrupt the stream of highly intellectual AR discussions, but on a more mundane and an entirely different note, would someone please interpret the following for me:

S&A, chp 5, pp 58 (Godine ed.); Mother has just brought out the last items to the Swallows' new camp on The Island:

"The female native began taking [items] out [of a large bag] as if she were digging the presents out of a bran pie."

This Yankee hasn't the faintest clue what this is in reference to. Digging presents out of a bran pie? Could someone please explain?

I'm rereading S&A for perhaps the hundredth time, and with the resource of the TarBoard close at hand, I'm hoping that now, after 31 years of reading AR, I can have this little mystery cleared up.

Happy New Year, and all the best to all of you,
Alex


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