Pie for Magpie
By Tuttle, W. C.
In the rugged wilds of the Old West, the irrepressible Magpie Simpkins—part philosopher, part fool, and all trouble—drags his long-suffering partner Ike Harper into a reckless bet that spirals into chaos. When a wager to survive thirty days in the wilderness collides with a pair of eccentric professors, a pack of misfit hounds, and a stolen pie laced with revenge, the line between survival and farce blurs. A rollicking tale of wit, mischief, and frontier absurdity, where no scheme is too outrageous and no bet too foolish to backfire.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1918