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Alternate layers of sliced pippins and mutton steaks might indeed make a pie, but not an apple-pie, therefore this puzzling phrase must have had some other origin. An ingenious friend of mine has suggested that it may perhaps be derived from that expression which we meet with in one of the scenes of _Hamlet_,
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Cap à pied; where it means perfectly appointed. The transition from _cap à pied_, or
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is to be found in the once familiar