Pumpkins and Jack O’ Lanterns. 
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Pumpkin’ (1850)
 
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