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Updated: June 15, 2025
"No," said the Pike man; "none of your Yankee truck for me." "I guess you don't know what's good," said Mr. Bickford. "What's your favorite vittles?" "Bacon and hominy, hoe-cakes and whisky." "Well," said Joshua, "it depends on the way a feller is brung up. I go for baked beans and brown bread, and punkin pie that's goloptious. Ever eat punkin pie, stranger?" "Yes." "Like it?"
"The doctor, there, now look at the eddication he's had! an' he says the same." "It's my opinion," said the miller, "that the more book learnin' a man crams into his head the more common sense gets squeezed out. It stands to reason that there couldn't be room for everything unless his head was to swell like a punkin." "Huh!" cried Sandy McQuarry impatiently.
When he squared himself again and buzzed his spurs against the bar, his mind was wholly given to the proper execution of the musical gem. "She can make a punkin pie, Quick's a cat can wink her eye " Something was going on, over in the dimly lighted corner near the door.
The next time you tell stories about Yankee pedlars, put the wooden clock in with the wooden punkin seeds, and Hickory hams, will you? The Blue Noses, Squire, are all like Zeb Allen, they think they know every thing, but they get gulled from years' eend to years' eend. They expect too much from others, and do too little for themselves.
Charming Billy yanked his pack-pony awake and into a shuffling trot over the trail, resettled his hat on his head, sagged his shoulders again and went back to crooning his ditty. "Can she make a punkin pie, Billy boy, Billy boy, Can she make a punkin pie, charming Billy? She can make a punkin pie Quick's a cat can wink her eye "
In a few hours the whole range was aflame with vengeful fire. The Forks, as you may recall, was like a swarm of bumblebees. Every man and boy was armed and mounted. The storekeepers distributed guns and ammunition, leaders developed, and the embattled 'punkin rollers, rustlers, and townsmen rode out to meet the invaders." The girl paled with memory of it. "It was terrible!
“Now, there! Glad to hear you say it. Canned that punkin ourselves. Put it up several years ago. Thought it smelled and looked a bit spoiled, but I says, guess I'll cook it up; mebbe the heat 'n' all'll turn it all right again. There's more in the kitchen!” But it suddenly seemed as if I must get to work earlier that noon than I had expected. “Can't ya even finish your pie?
He looked older, and there were chronic creases between his eyebrows, and it was seldom that he asked tunefully "Can she make a punkin pie, Billy boy, Billy Boy?" He had too much on his mind for singing anything.
"They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees, And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees; But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
"Hush, you punkin headed peasant," sez I. "The' 's just as much of Alfred's blood flowin' through his veins now as the' ever was." "'T is not the money I have lost that makes me mad," sez Locals. "It's finding out that a man can become so degenerate that he will impose upon the very ones who save his life deceive them, lie to them!"
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