Check the sneakers!

Kerry M. Knobelsdorff

When Greg was small, his family lived on a busy street. Each Halloween Greg and his brothers and sisters were allowed to go trick-or-treating, but only around their own block. This way they would not have to cross the busy street. Off they'd go, disguised in the costumes they had made. Because Greg's big brother, Adam, was the oldest, he held Dad's flashlight.

Greg wished he were old enough to cross a dozen streets and go to a hundred houses. Instead, he made a plan. He made himself three different costumes and changed into them so he could ring his own doorbell three times. With each new costume he felt sure his mother would not recognize him. "Trick or treat!" Greg said, each time in a different voice, when his mother came to the door. But to his surprise each time she said, "It's Greg again!"

Finally, in one last attempt to fool his mother, Greg put on a big, old, white sheet that covered his entire body, so that not one part of him showed. He decided not even to speak. He would just hold out his candy bag. Mommy would never recognize him this time, he thought.

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