In the yard, a trailing watermelon vine dips into an empty pool meant for evening wades in cool water.
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The former president reminisces about his boyhood on the farm, including his favorite chore ( pruning watermelon vines ) and least favorite ( " mopping " cotton to kill boll weevils with arsenic dripped from rag mops ).
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Discarded seeds had produced not a partridge in a pear tree, but a mammoth squash in my lemon tree, with vines more than 40 feet long, six laden cherry tomato plants, an ever-producing acorn squash and a watermelon vine.