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1 Fall HarvestIt was October, and the cornfield was deserted and bare. Jehosophat and Marmaduke could remember it as a more beautiful picture. For there, in the Summer, an army had camped, the great army of the corn, with tassels and tall yellow spears, and bright green banners waving and tossing in the wind. But when Fall had come, Father and the Toyman had come, too, with their sickles like swords, to attack and cut down that brave army. And now the corn soldiers were all laid away, stiff and cold, in the barn, or else in the silo--to be pickled in juice! Marmaduke and Jehosophat looked over the field. It was covered with little hills, and there the feet of the corn soldiers still stood, all that was left of them, for they had been "swished by those swords," just at the ankles. Between the hills shone the last of the pumpkins, big, round and yellow--red-yellow like an orange. Most of them had gone in the wagon, long ago, but the largest of all had been left. My, but he was a big fellow! "The biggest in the world!" they declared. He had been saved for the great day--or night, we should say--Hallowe'en.
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The Story of Ole Man
Pumpkin 1 Fall Harvest 2 Pumpkin Pie 3 Jack - Ole Man Pumpkin 4 Jack O'Lantern 5 Ducking for
Apples 6 Cornfield Rebellion 7 Prisoner 8
Awakening
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