Pumpkin-headed

The parties made no reply, but were going forward, when the prisoner again called out, at the same time rushing from his house with a gun in his hand, exclaiming “you pumpkin headed b----, if you do not stop and tell me who you are, I'll blow your brains out,” at the same moment pulling the trigger, when the priming flashed in the pan.

“Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”