Show 7 e g 3 1 1 IM 4 70 A 1 1 1 1 I 1 R h t 4 M 1 1 7 7 A 1 ia ke to 1 l I 1 ri 6 q iq I I 1 I 1 I 1 i P rm 4 r V V Z sis 5 x 3 I 1 I 1 0 ier 1 I 1 R I 1 L A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 0 I 1 1 11 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 11 ap aj 11 7 V k I 1 1 I V I 1 1 THE BIGGEST watermelon in the truck patch on the north side elde 0 ot t the I 1 it e old squatters cabin was s X A wa Irr melon so eo near tile the adze ale ot of a flour bar I 1 ail that I 1 gasped at the light bight of it bud and after I 1 it had d walked aro around rid it tit ree or four times I 1 aked a ked kod abe hope it that was wa the biggest melon lie he ever raised th that a t no a account count trifle out that lhart lie ex exclaimed 0 laened in tono tone of oc contempt as he g glanced lanced toward the patch why sail that 9 one that latin away to sell to the steamboat men any of the culla folks alks around yere w would 0 old liv hey li v to be mighty hard up to steal that shoo liu hu then althen you have raised rained larger ones I 1 persisted stranger said paid abe as he racked at 1 a sliver in the sole ot of his shoe im grille to tell yo to bout the mc lyon ever raised and the old woman and all the folks folka around yere it w ill back me up tip in it I 1 might lie bout n wildcats or catill cattish sh but a ninn man hey to be lowdown low down doun to lip lie bout met mel yang bout to aars ago kurnel bunker cum along yore one day and sea to me abe hope folks dun tell me that yo ae ar the laziest mark man in all Ar artinsa arkansaw kinsa and im beelin bad over ovar IU it 0 tile use In when lion io I 1 cs don dont L hev tor sex 1 I 11 but ei aery ery orter b bev an ism m 1 aez he as takes oft off his hat to the old woman ston din in the doah cloah llev yo got an arribi shull kurnel bu bunker 9 kert 1 I hey hev I 1 want to by be gavner ot of ar kunsaw next yar everybody in the state except yo has got eol an tun bishun mid ive dun cum down to see it I 1 cant stir yop yo up yo to hey hev no abbl shun as big as a house and one to make yo bacat shirt but jest to keep the chills and fever off ar yo laillia la i illin to tackle an am belshun bl shun 11 if t I 1 dont hev her to N car beteg autes nor git my bar cut aez I 1 11 mien stert ril ill tell yo lahat to do a 1 he we ae ar orwine to hold a county tar this fill fall and do you go 50 at it and raise up tip the biggest water clyon ever seen on the face of 0 this ihla airth that shall be your ambi ghun and it will be one to glorify the hull state when that rite gits the prize at our show the name of abe hope will be writ in letters ot of kold gold on an the records of 0 time and with my own oven barid will I 1 present your ole woman with mith a hull pound AV 0 snuff and a new par a 0 shoes that the way he talked to me 1 said aid aft abe e as he still inn duir at the sliver and I 1 promised him that id hey hev am bishun I 1 had sum lilg big mellons in my tince but I 1 b had ad nevor never spread myself to see what hat could bo be dun with em cm it was as bout plant ln time then and I 1 fixed up the site and picked out sum seeds and went to work 1 I slotted fur plenty of 0 room and put a bresh fence around the spot to keep the mewl orf oft t the he seed eed um up said and the line ine begun to r run n aind I 1 neier did see any anything thin like it nas A as six ine mellons lyons on that vine but the lite one in ili tile the middle adl fl the best beat and it grew to LIP be ft AL i w hopper I 1 qu burld crid stranger a whopper hopper ot of a a Is on thing twilus but a hopp inest whopper Is 19 another when site got BOI to be as big ai a i 0 beer bacr keir keff the she was waa a whopper hopper v when V h en she got to be as ble big as a it flour barl bael she was aas a hoppl nest whopper hopper artt arter r that I 1 nt find no A words to call her by she jest riz up and spread out and got big and finally she was the size ot of a hogshead you dont mean it ask kurnel bunker sall he rid do down 11 yere one day and took a look at ill that at and arter lie had walked all aroun dIt it lie he ficz to me abe hope thern them pyramids ot of egypt aint kowhai alongside this and the he archives of time lime will vill bo be holun holuin holdin in your name when rhen that ot of napoleon lias has dun bin forgotten dont g lt brunc dont lick the ole woman dont do to aar this front from grow in afi ads big as a house what he said and rite me anil and 0 the ie olo ole woman used to walk aroun around d on il lip p toes and speak in it whispers I 1 reckoned that when that yore got they had dun crawled out ot of that me I 1 athey Is ad I 1 1 you dont donl mean it I 1 aery lI cry last word pah gall yes sail ball them thice farlies fam farn lies had do dun n squatted anilde that fur a cabin bero it 11 loft eft my land and they had bad late eaten awny away till 1111 tile hie roof pot got aenk and fell in on art I 1 cin they has had dun dug due out three big biff brooms booma inside and hant hang m me if they hey ro fo or live cats a and I 1 id al di dibi aag ii s ablong aith eni I 1 I 1 wis nolar so mad 1 in I all my lily bon days but ahat A hat could I 1 do bout ltv N hat bat did yo do I 1 asked rolled ll it ashore and let them nig nl gers cc rs brace up tho the roof and live in ili it all iminter inter it no good COCK to tc nie me any mo oa as it ft prize when I 1 mot met kurnel buner I 1 aez to him toi buniel Ku niel iel yo peat peal to me to he hev ant 1 I 1 did sex he Is and I 1 hey hev it like a baby nith the men measles yo old did abe hope and I 1 bin knocked a out t A X A I 1 V Z f l aal aol 1 12 ap 1 X 1141 sk I 1 I 1 q ds rt V A S AF afi I 1 it fj AS si tr 00 a N V 1 J 4 W vc r st 9 v W az it 7 1 I 1 4 xa 1 1 4 V I 1 azin 1 1 9 rs I 1 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I e 6 0 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1411 T 4 I 1 1 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 3 V I 1 17 I 1 I 1 ke UR V t 1 I 1 I 1 r 0 A I 1 j 1 4 I 1 i I 1 aa I 1 ZI W m I 1 1 1 4 41 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 q I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 Z I 1 f A j P I 1 1 aco X if 7 e 1 I rac 1 4 I I 1 I 1 they althey went in to hey sum sua fun 11 t wrecked busted and ker flopped bya by a I 1 pa W 0 nig biggers nl gers yo to hey hev and I 1 cant blame yo afi it abbl hun has fled and yo yay inn dun turn about anil and never draw another I 1 long ions br breath c ill but you have I 1 said blebee so 80 stranger debbe so replied abe as he stretched out his back in the sun but it if I 1 hey hev I 1 alkalis aka is i ly mean to do it no sah I 1 got no mo me am blahun bishun and them pyramids Pyramid sI of egypt and archives ot of time and letters it r of gold eold aint gwine to 1 bother bolster me in an fn fur r the rest of 0 my life a pipe and ter backer on the lite bhelt and a jut JUK of 0 u hisky on oil the iho doali find and yo jest dun help yoseff and be at hame and dont ell it up no talk to make hard vork lur fur 1 I me j py right all reserved to he be ais aa big 1119 a as a shed it would hoi 1401 I 1 I 1 I 1 mile dolln and flop astol grolln and po go so lu x k feln aln house but it speared reared she aiho lid find it a TOO site she kat grolln till h wan mighty nigh as MB big as this cabin oil n find and it I 1 had cleaod her out ot lit h bould hey hev made a shel bh d for UK the IL 11 was her lift left I 1 aich innet annai that big biff hole in the th hover over j 1 I reckon eliat about people cum yore I 1 to a look at thiu and aurnel bunker r said mild that my aro blahun would c airy 11 ry me to the Legisla chur and you pot got the melon anelo down 1 to she th county fair I 1 observed us ila the old man mado made a long pause no sali aali we hn he loly replied ed one day I 1 got FlIx teen m ayi tri up lit idere vc re with handspikes hand spikes and ro pes ond and wt wi rolled that utown doln n to the riv rr er bald and a flatboat yo kin see are how shu hu gullied out tile aleth a OR ah she nent along abony wo va rot gat lier her on in tile tb flatboat all right find nd not on off to final bloat her doun tile hie river but arter we WB had ene bout ten alie alm ile ilif of 0 thit fiat lnelson logun to ID ravo cavo in it it va MAID too lipe ell cli 0 no o at aasne it 11 fuat fun t b R ue w knew ebale wn as about twenty culla t d folks mell linen and thillen thill cn all aboard us they mian t tile ahen N ve so aarl a 4 nd they hadel iliin iii in aboard |