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The pumpkin-headed man welcomed his visitors joyfully and offered them several delicious pumpkin pies to eat. "I don't indulge in pumpkin pies myself, for two reasons," he said. "One reason is that were I to eat pumpkins I would become a cannibal, and the other reason is that I never eat, not being hollow inside." "Very good reasons," agreed the Scarecrow.
The gym presented a pretty picture that night lighted by pumpkin Jack o' Lanterns in which electric bulbs had been hidden, and by grotesque paper lanterns representing bats, owls and all sorts of flying nocturnal creatures.
Among many comments mentioned by Penny Pagano is the one of Dan Carlinksy, writer and vice president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, in New York. "'The electronic explosion has changed the entire nature of the business, Carlinsky says. In the past, articles sold to a periodical essentially 'turned into a pumpkin with no value' once they were published.
We will go with thee and if it behoveth to do aught, we will do it. Accordingly, Nello having joined himself to them, they returned home with Calandrino, who betook himself, all dejected, into the bedchamber and said to his wife, 'Come, cover me well, for I feel myself sore disordered. Then, laying himself down, he despatched his water by a little maid to Master Simone, who then kept shop in the Old Market, at the sign of the Pumpkin, whilst Bruno said to his comrades, 'Abide you here with him, whilst I go hear what the doctor saith and bring him hither, if need be. 'Ay, for God's sake, comrade mine, cried Calandrino, 'go thither and bring me back word how the case standeth, for I feel I know not what within me.
"We made it out of a pumpkin," explained Scamper. "Just see the windows and doors," said Wink. "Come inside and see how nice it is," invited Wiggle. They all took their apples and sat down inside the toy house. "It is very cunning," said Limpy-toes. "But it must have been hard work to chew it all out," added Buster. "It did take a long time," admitted Scamper cheerily, "but it was great sport.
I almost wish * was here, and I at home, sorting squash and pumpkin seeds for planting. "It is a new post for me to be in. I am not a sentry, not in the ranks, not in the staff. I am thrown into the wagon as part of the baggage. I am like an old gun that is spiked or the trunnions knocked off, and yet am carted off, not for the worth of the old iron, but to balk the enemy of a trophy.
And on the other side there was the mother of a girl who's at the art school, or whatever you call it, where they teach you paintin'. They are from somewhere up yonder in New England and their home folks had sent 'em a pumpkin pie. She gave me a slice of it, but I never did think much of pumpkin.
Not Jack Holmes or Jack Frost no, it was someone much handsomer, although he had a hole in the top of his head, a fat face, big round eyes, a large flat nose, and a wide, wide mouth with lots of square teeth in it. "Mr. Jehosophat Green," said the Toyman very politely, "let me make you acquainted with Jack, or, as he is sometimes called, 'Ole Man Pumpkin." Jehosophat bowed low.
She entered the room again bearing a tray covered with a snowy napkin on which were quaint blue plates of delicious bread and butter, pumpkin pie, golden browned as only Dyce could bake it, and a cup of fragrant coffee. "I did not know anything could taste quite so good!" Evadne said when she had finished, "you must be a wonderful cook." Dyce laughed, well pleased.
I sup this same evening with a family of Germans, who have been settled here forty years, and scarcely know a word of English yet. A fat, phlegmatic-looking baby is peacefully reposing in a cradle, which is simply half a monster pumpkin scooped out and dried; it is the most intensely rustic cradle in the world.
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