The kids get comfy on the couches or stools or all over the floor.

"I'll bet you can't guess what story I am going to read to you tonight!" Darcy says, smiling.

Cookie yells out "Charlie Brown!" as Lorena yells "The Great Pumpkin!" and Darcy nods her head.

There was a great feeling around the neighborhood that Linus always acted a bit peculiar during the month of October. Each year he got out a piece of his nicest stationery and wrote a letter to someone he called "the Great Pumpkin."

Sally thought Linus might be right about the story of "the Great Pumpkin."-- Each year on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere and flies through the air with his pack of toys for all the good little children in the world." So, they went and waited for THE arrival sincerely.

"And Linus said, 'You'll be sorry if he comes! ...Good grief, I said "if"! I meant WHEN! WHEN he comes!'"

Darcy continues to read, making funny voices for each character, and the children listen enthralled.

The kids all giggle as Darcy mimics Lucy getting kissed by Snoopy!
	"Uch! Bluch! Dog germs!"

"Suddenly, a strange silhouette appeared before their eyes. "It's the Great Pumpkin!" cried Linus. "He is rising out of the pumpkin patch!" He toppled over backward in a faint."

Darcy finishes up the story and closes the book with a bang! "When it runs out to be Snoopy's shadow and NOT the Great Pumpkin,"

"When it turns out to be Snoopy's shadow and NOT the Great Pumpkin, Sally screams 'I was robbed! I spent the whole night waiting for the Great Pumpkin when I could have been out for Tricks or Treats!'"

In the morning Daddy will drive all the out-of-towners to the airport. Shandra, Moon and Cassie hug everyone goodbye as the neighborhood kids go home.