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The Vendors Awaiting Customers. 
ical America, as well as for saucepans or kettles in which to boil water. The shell is very 
hard, tough and not inflammable, and bears the fire for several successive times without 
injury. 
The fruit varies in size and general outline on different trees, but may be described 
as round, oval or even bottle-shaped, and by skilful tying the growing fruit can be made 
to assume almost any form. In recent years a good many of the smaller fruits that were 
properly grown and molded when young were used for making smokers’ pipes. The 
larger and well developed fruits are from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, and 
have a thin greenish yellow skin over a hard and woody shell. The pulp within 
consists of a pale yellow soft and juicy substance, which is regarded by some to be a 
valuable remedy for certain internal disorders. 
When the fruit is ripe and the pulp is removed, the hard shell is dried and reduced 
by scraping. The small cups hold from one to four pints, and the large oval ones as much 
as seven to eight quarts. The outside of the shells is often highly polished and ornamented 
by means of figures carved, engraved or printed upon them. In this condition they are 
sold extensively to the northern travelers. The elaborately carved calabashes often bring 
