
{"id":14144,"date":"2010-11-24T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:04:59","slug":"when-the-frost-is-on-the-punkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/24\/when-the-frost-is-on-the-punkin\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Frost is on the Punkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: The staff of this newspaper wishes you and yours a very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday. The editor, recalling the many holidays past when this poem was read aloud and the soothing effect it had on even the most annoying relatives, suggests you gather the young ones around a senior member of your tribe with good eyesight and a resonate voice and let it rip.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhen the Frost is on the Punkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by James Whitcomb Riley<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the shock,<br \/>\nAnd you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 turkey-cock,<br \/>\nAnd the clackin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the guineys, and the cluckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the hens,<br \/>\nAnd the rooster\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;<br \/>\nO, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s then\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the times a feller is a-feelin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at his best,<br \/>\nWith the risin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,<br \/>\nAs he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock,<br \/>\nWhen the frost is on the punkin and the fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the shock.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something kindo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 harty-like about the atmusfere<br \/>\nWhen the heat of summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over and the coolin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fall is here \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nOf course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees,<br \/>\nAnd the mumble of the hummin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-birds and buzzin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the bees;<br \/>\nBut the air\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so appetizin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; and the landscape through the haze<br \/>\nOf a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days<br \/>\nIs a pictur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that no painter has the colorin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to mock \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the frost is on the punkin and the fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the shock.<\/p>\n<p>The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn,<br \/>\nAnd the raspin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn;<br \/>\nThe stubble in the furries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d kindo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lonesome-like, but still<br \/>\nA-preachin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill;<br \/>\nThe strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;<br \/>\nThe hosses in theyr stalls below \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the clover over-head! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nO, it sets my hart a-clickin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 like the tickin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of a clock,<br \/>\nWhen the frost is on the punkin and the fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the shock!<\/p>\n<p>Then your apples all is gethered, and the ones a feller keeps<br \/>\nIs poured around the celler-floor in red and yeller heaps;<br \/>\nAnd your cider-makin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over, and your wimmern-folks is through<br \/>\nWith their mince and apple-butter, and theyr souse and saussage, too! &#8230;<br \/>\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to tell it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but ef sich a thing could be<br \/>\nAs the Angels wantin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 boardin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call around on me \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d want to \u00e2\u20ac\u2122commodate \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all the whole-indurin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 flock \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the frost is on the punkin and the fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the shock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: The staff of this newspaper wishes you and yours a very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday. The editor, recalling the many holidays past when this poem was read aloud and the soothing effect it had on even the most annoying relatives, suggests you gather the young ones around a senior member of your tribe with good eyesight and a resonate voice and let it rip.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14240,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions\/14240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}