The pumpkin is the only esculent of the orange family that will thrive in the North, except the gourd and one or two varieties of the squash.

But the custom of planting it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for it is now generally conceded that, the pumpkin as a shade tree is a failure.
Now, as the warm weather approaches, and the ganders begin to spawn-- The excited listener sprang toward me to shake hands, and said: "There, there--that will do.

I know I am all right now, because you have read it just as I did, word, for word.

But, stranger, when I first read it this morning, I said to myself, I never, never believed it before, notwithstanding my friends kept me under watch so strict, but now I believe I am crazy; and with that I fetched a howl that you might have heard two miles, and started out to kill somebody--because, you know, I knew it would come to that sooner or later, and so I might as well begin.

I read one of them paragraphs over again, so as to be certain, and then I burned my house down and started.