A DIFFERENCE WITHOUT A DISTINCTION
Reading edition
It was a Pennsylvania German farmer’s wife who having baked a large number of very fine pies, some mince and some apple, marked the crust of each with two letters—T. M. Being asked by a neighbor what these letters stood for, she said:
“Vy, T. M. on this pie means ‘’Tis mince,’ and on that pie it means ‘’Tain’t mince.”