The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with

commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God

over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the

angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because

she repented.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"