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8 AwakeningThen--then--but it was a new voice that was speaking to him. "Get up!" it said. It wasn't Ole Man Pumpkin that was telling him to get up on that table, so he could scalp him. It was Mother telling him to sit up in bed! "I knew they had too much pie," she was saying, and, "come, dear, open your mouth; take this and you'll feel better in the morning." She was on one side of the bed, and Father was on the other, ready to take a hand, as he always did under the circumstances. They weren't pleasant, either, the circumstances, for they were,--first Father's grip on his arm, then a tablespoon--not a teaspoon, or a dessert spoon, but a tablespoon, such as a giant might use--full of a thick yellow liquid from that bottle they hated so, and pointed right at his tongue. However, he took it pretty bravely, swallowed it, gulped, then choked back the tears. But the orange-juice, which followed the yellow stuff, almost made up for it. He always did like orange as a color better than yellow, any day. And there was Ole Man Pumpkin again, on the dining room table, grinning, not wickedly but cheerfully. He winked at Jehosophat, just like the Ole Man in the Moon, whom he strangely resembled--as much as to say: "We'll have a good time yet in spite of that bottle." After all, he wasn't an enemy of the children, who would cut holes in their heads and scoop out their insides--he was their friend, was Ole Man Pumpkin, and Jehosophat felt much relieved at that. THE END
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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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