15 Verbs to Use for the Word watermelon

"Annie," said I, "suppose, to relieve the deadly dulness of the afternoon, that we go out and pull the big watermelon, and send for Colonel Pemberton's folks to come over and help us eat it.

An interesting little daughter of a professor in Danville, Kentucky, in the Summer of 1876, in eating a watermelon, got one of the seeds lodged in her windpipe.

They read: Do you like watermelon?

I distinctly remember picking up watermelons, when a schoolboy, much earlier than that.

"Julius," I remarked, "I am thinking of setting out scuppernong vines on that sand-hill where the three persimmon-trees are; and while I'm working there, I think I'll plant watermelons between the vines, and get a little something to pay for my first year's work.

With a beautiful sense of adjustmentas obvious as that in Nature, that projects the huge watermelon to ripen on a slender vine on the ground and swings a greengage plum on the stout stem of a tree to mature in storm or shineMme.

He split rails and raised watermelons.

SALESMEN AND SALESMANSHIP A darky fruit-dealer in Georgia has a sign above his wares that reads: Watermelons Our choice 25 cents.

I saw some watermelons in the garden with a paling fence around it.

Mr. Capers sent watermelons, and another gentleman from Kentucky sent the wines of his State.

Anyway Be sure to come to a watermelon party on the local fairgrounds next Tuesday evening Admission 25 cents This entitles you to see the minstrel show Proceeds for the Epworth League of Church Long plank tables on wooden horses were improvised for serving the watermelons which were contributed by the members of the society.

Pa tried to head off Bolivar at the grocery, but Bolivar took half a watermelon and put the red side on top of pa's head, and squashed it down so the seeds and juice and pulp ran down pa's shirt and neck, and he looked as though murder had been committed, but pa wiped his face on his shirt sleeve and showed game, because he kept mauling Bolivar with the hook.

Then it is that one would like to imitate the mode of life of the native at Sierra Leone, as somebody has described it: stroll into the market in natural costume,buy a watermelon for a halfpenny,split it, and scoop out the middle,sit down in one half of the empty rind, clap the other on one's head, and feast upon the pulp.

" Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Humorous Tales of Slavery Days "I was born in 1854 and 'co'se I wasn't big enough to work much in slavery times, but one thing I did do and that was to tote watermelons for the overseer and pile 'em on the porch.

The rider would come round in June and July too when they thought the people would be hunting the watermelons.

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  watermelon