| Show Is the watermelon degenerating you induce any intelligent resident who was it a freckled farmer boy th thirty airty years yeara ago to believe that it Is not you make him believe that he ever crawled three t b r ep quarters 0 of a mile on hands and knees lu in the moonlight to steal s te al such a pallid leathery thing as opens unwillingly to his knife in these early summer bummer days to attempt it would be to cast imputations upon his boyish intelligence ai euce there was nas something indescribably bably delicious about the old time watermelon lit in the first place it was warm work reaching it pl into furrows and scrambling over low rail fences in the semi dark then the patch lay out in the moonlight with rustling corn all around and dotting it e eory cry where lay the great s striped melons mele biele w with ath glittering dewdrops on them into these melons the it farst nt probe of the knife caused ominous cracking sounds startling to the alg night i nt raider halfway half way iowa down its length the great hal halves vesi would yawn and fall asunder leaving the rich led meat exposed in jagged ridges upon which were crystal formations suggestive of the sweetness within in those days no debating society ever dla dis cussed the question whether the watermelon was a fruit or a voge vegetable table after such a search it was unquestionably a luscious fruit to grace any clime between the poles toda to dl da it would be difficult to classify the G melon it is a tough unresponsive ave vogl table instine like a cucumber i w bleb has been slightly sweetened sweetee 1 I with wit th water molas seq sei it Is dull prosale pro aale uninteresting the idea id a of stealing one of then them would be as preposterous as the stealing of a cottonwood stump it is watery biam clammy elastic the very corpse or of the watermelon that used to be |
