At last they entered the pumpkin patch.
"Well," said Sukey, "there's nothing curious here. I know all about
pumpkins."
With that the pickaninny commenced to jump up and down on one, but he was
so light that he could not break it. He kept jumping higher and higher;
now he was bouncing up ten feet in the air, then fifteen, then twenty,
until at last he leaped up as high as the top of the oak-tree, and coming
down, he struck his heels through the pumpkin. Sukey laughed till the
tears ran off her chin. The pickaninny thrust his arm in and took out a
seed. Then breaking that open, he showed Susan that the inside of a
pumpkin seed was two white leaves, the first leaves of the young pumpkin
vine. And so an hour passed while the pickaninny showed her many curious
things, of which I have not time to tell you.
At last he said, "Now, Sukey Gray, pray let me fly away!"
"I shall not keep you if you want to go," said Susan.
"Then pluck the mistletoe, and let me go."
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I cannot go until you pluck the mistletoe."
Sukey pulled a piece of mistletoe from the limb where they were standing,
and he bowed and said,
"Now, Sukey Gray, good-day. Don't waste your sighs, but use your eyes.
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