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The Vegetables: Hallowe'en

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The picture shows the interior of a suitably spooky church, where a wedding service is taking place.

In the background, bats can be seen - both hanging from the rafters and swooping overhead - as well as a dusty spider's web, red burning candles, and the figure of a ghostly nun.

At the altar stands Spud, dressed in a black top hat and bow tie. His bride is a demonic-looking orange pumpkin, wearing a white tiara and veil. Her evil eyes, with the lights of glowing candles behind them, are disguised by huge fluttering eyelashes; her wicked grin masked by unevenly applied red lipstick. Just behind her, however, she is hiding a large, gleaming kitchen knife ...

In the foreground, a hand holds a wedding ring between thumb and forefinger.

Underneath the cartoon, the caption reads "If any person here can show just and sufficient reason why these two vegetables should not be joined ...".

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