(First, read 'The Baptist White Lie Cake' story on this website)...

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Our next door neighbor was hosting a tea. She had been asked to host, and she had offered to provide dessert. For the occasion, she baked one of her specialties, home made apple pie.

Unfortunately for Ruth (the neighbor), she had several unruly cats. Any time you visited Ruth, if she got up to fix lunch, she'd be fighting her cats for the food while she prepared a meal for herself.

Now the cats couldn't get to the pie because, delicious as it smelled (we could smell it at our house), it was in the oven.

Once it came out, and was cooling, Ruth forgot the pie on the kitchen counter, doing other things to prepare her home for the party.

The cats had NOT forgotten the pie, and as Ruth went into the kitchen to serve the pie, she found two of the cats on the counter, feasting on the pie.

"Fortunately," Ruth related later, the cats had only eaten the center of the pie. "Stroke of genius!" (Ruth's words) She figured out that if she covered the whole top of the pie --and the center -- with a huge mound of whipped cream, no one would know.

She said she got a dozen compliments on that pie!

(The tie-in to your story, Rowland, is that to not tell people what had happened to the pie was DECEPTION (lying)

After the neighbor told my mom (she was my mom's neighbor), mom told our family, and we all resolved that we'd never again eat ANYTHING at Ruth's house!

I told that story to another neighbor a year later, and she commented, "Oh! I've done that SEVERAL times!"

That neighbor had two cats.

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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

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