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Show Englanders were called pumpkin heads. As every male was required to have his hair cut round by a cup, "when cups were not to be had, they substituted the hard shell of a pumpkin, pump-kin, which, heing put on the head every Saturday, the hair is cut by the shell all around the head." Gas Logic. The Sacred Pumpkin "The pumpkin, or pompion." we read In Peters' "Ceneral History of Conned lent." published In 1 ."SI . "is one of the greates hlessinns. and held sacred in New Kngland. Of Its meat are made beer, bread, eusinnls. sauce, molasses, vinegar and. on ihanUsgiv-Ing ihanUsgiv-Ing days, lies, as a substitute for what the blue laws brand as am i-Cbrlsiian mine d pies. The same nuthoi explains why New |