"July. VII Month.", Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), Philadelphia: B. Frankin and D. Hall
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“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”
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Ray Bradbury
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