A Pumpkin and a Prince 



any other crowlets that ever happened. 

 All the other crows know the truth, 

 and sooner or later these doting par- 

 ents discover that their own progeny 

 are no whiter than their sisters, cousins 

 and aunts of crow-land. 



Another thing; the casting of my 

 mammoth pumpkin into the discard 

 at this county fair taught me once 

 for all that mere size, mere stature, 

 mere girth, mere bulk, mere pounds 

 avoirdupois, do not necessarily mean 

 the most quality, and afford no guar- 

 antee whatever of superior fitness or 

 desirability. On the contrary, when 

 my big pumpkin was cut open it was so 

 coarse-grained that when chopped into 

 chunks it was not even relished spe- 

 cially by either cows or pigs, all of which 

 simply means that the finer fibers 

 rarely accompany the ranker growths 

 in either the animal or the vegetable 

 kingdoms, and the county fair enforces 

 these and kindred lessons just as effec- 

 tually as do International Expositions. 



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