Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and from South, come the pilgrim and guest,... When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it c...omes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, dance. Dance and dream. Dream that you're Mrs. Henry Jekyll of Harley Street, dancing with your own butler and six footmen. D...ream that they've all turned into white mice and crawled into an eternal pumpkin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer takes Jill down the well and all the king's horses... and all the king's men can't put that little girl together again crooked man crooked man pumpkin eater childhood stealer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cot we shared is almost a prison where I can't say buttercup, bobolink,... sugarduck, pumpkin, love ribbon, locket, valentine, summergirl, funnygirl and all those nonsense things one says in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my hold...er, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ...ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »