Peter Newell, The Hole Book, plate 14

	A watermelon, large and fine, Was in the kitchen shed; The bullet drilled a hole through it As on its way it sped.

	"Who plugged dat melon?" mammy cried, As through the door she came. "I'd spank de chile dat done dat trick, Ef I could learn his name."

Peter Newell, The Hole Book, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1908, plate 14.

Online edition by Marco Graziosi, December 1999.
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