It’s come to my attention that there’s a certain group of people who have turned up their noses at watermelon seed spitting practices in the South. They claim it isn’t done and is a grossly exaggerated practice that doesn’t exist in the real world.

Well, I beg to differ. I’ve seen it done, often. And I have done it myself. Always outside, you understand.

The farm had a beaucoup of watermelons. The watermelon crop was so abundant that the excess was fed to the hogs.

Seldom a summer day passed without a watermelon in it.

When harvest came, watermelons — mostly Congos and Charleston

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