Night Shade Family
There were:
Common Night Shade, a tiny round black pill-like berry with a tiny white cap.
Sand Burr, in a buff coat full of prickles. And what do you think? There was—
Common White Potato, with a ridiculously small bell-shaped green and white cap.
“Oh,” Mary Frances could not help exclaiming; “is White Potato a member of the Night Shade family? I thought night shade was poison!”
“I ain’t poison—I ain’t! Not after I’m cooked!” growled Potato. “You’ve ate up enough of my brothers and sisters to know that!”
“Hush!” admonished Bouncing Bet. “Keep still! That’s terrible grammar, even though you are a common ‘Tater,’ you ought to speak more correctly than that.”
“Excuse me, but we’ve fed hundreds and thousands of people, and that’s more than any of the rest of you can say, even if you don’t like my grammar.”