pumpkin-patch

So he scoot past dat buryin'-ground whut on de hill, an 'dat cemuntary whut betwixt an' between, an 'dat grabeyard in de hollow, twell he come to de pumpkin-patch, an' he rotch down an 'tek erhold ob de bestest pumpkin whut in de patch.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

So dat li'l black boy whut he name is Mose he done got to fotch a pumpkin from de pumpkin-patch down de hollow.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

But dat ain't no use, 'ca'se he ma say, "Mose, go on down to de pumpkin-patch an' fotch a pumpkin. "

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

So he scoot 'past dat buryin'-ground whut on de hill, an' dat cemuntary whut betwixt an 'between, an' dat grabeyard in de hollow, twell he come 'to de pumpkin-patch, an' he rotch 'down an' tek 'erhold ob de bestest pumpkin whut in de patch. An' he right smart scared.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

So dat li'l 'black boy whut he name is Mose he done got to fotch a pumpkin from de pumpkin-patch down de hollow.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

But dat ain't no use, 'ca'se he ma say', "Mose, go on down to de pumpkin-patch an 'fotch a pumpkin."

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

One day an Irishman who had heard people talking about "mares 'nests" was going along the big road -- it is always the big road in contradistinction to neighborhood paths and bypaths, called in the vernacular "nigh-cuts" -- when he came to a pumpkin-patch.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

SUN Pumpkin carving techniques and inspirations, tales of ghosts and goblins, haunted pumpkin-patch trail, 1 p.m.

The Seattle Times 2011

Her changeover began in a relatively unplanned way, when organizers of a pumpkin-patch festival at Jubilee Farm in Snohomish talked about bringing in burgers.

The Seattle Times 2011

ONCE 'pon a time dey was a li'l black boy whut he name was Mose. An' whin he come erlong to be 'bout knee-high to a mewel, he 'gin to git powerful 'fraid ob ghosts,' ca'se dey's a grabeyard in de hollow, an 'a buryin'-ground on de hill, an' a cemuntary in betwixt an 'between, an' dey ain't nuffin 'but trees nowhar in de clearin' by de shanty an 'down de hollow whar de pumpkin-patch am.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews