There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].” 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock[…] 1911, James Whitcomb Riley, When the Frost is on the Punkin: