Marmaduke turned.
Jehosophat turned.
Hepzebiah turned.
"Ooh, ooh!" said she;
"Golly!" said Marmaduke; and
"Gee whiz!", Jehosophat.
Great yellow eyes looked in through the window, and a nose, and a great grinning mouth with big teeth in it.
The visitor nodded, needing no introduction, for they had made his acquaintance already.
He came into the house, helped a little by the Toyman, and still nodding his great yellow head.
They gave him a seat of honor, not by the table, but on it, right in the centre. Marmaduke climbed up and looked down into the big hole in the top of his head. In it was a thick candle, dancing inside his old yellow skull, and he seemed a good comrade, that Ole Man Pumpkin.