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Updated: June 12, 2025
"The houses are always furnished with lamps, of course, and everybody carries a lantern. No one dreams of stirring out in Pokonoket without a lantern. The men go to their work with lanterns, the ladies take theirs when they go out shopping, and all the children have their little lanterns to carry to school. "On account of the darkness, there are some very curious customs in Pokonoket.
"Uncle Jack, what is Toby, and what is Pokonoket, and what is a loon?" "Toby," said uncle Jack slowly and impressively, "lives in Pokonoket, and keeps a loon." "Oh!" said Letitia, in a tone which implied that she was both relieved and amazed at her own stupidity. "Yes; perhaps you would like to hear something more particular about Toby how he got married, for instance?"
"Aunt Malvina said 'as black as Toby," said Letitia with a look half of inquiry, half of anxious abstraction. What Letitia could find out herself she never asked other people. "Yes; I know she did," replied uncle Jack. "Then she said, 'Dark as Pokonoket." "Yes; she said that too." "And then she said, 'Crazy as a loon." "Yes; she did."
Otherwise, umbrellas would get so hopelessly mixed up in a dark country like Pokonoket that it would require a special sitting of Parliament to sort them out again. "It may seem rather odd that they should, but the inhabitants of Pokonoket are, as a general thing, very much attached to their country, and could not be hired to leave it for any other. It is a very peaceful place.
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