By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(Part 2)

After she ate, Mother Rigby worked quickly on her broomstick. She held her magic broomstick straight and tied another piece of wood across it. Already, it began to look like a man with arms.

Then, she made the head. She put a pumpkin, a vegetable the size of a large ball, on top of the broomstick. She made two small holes in the pumpkin for eyes. She made another cut lower down that looked just like a mouth.

At last, there he was. He seemed rea...