Hallowe'en was a time of joking and having fun, unlike today's Halloween where kids run door to door asking for candy. Back in the 1930's and 1940's through the 1970's you got stuff like apples or hotdogs, and stuff like that.

Ruby told us that some kids always played jokes on the same person every year. One year she and some of her friends played two jokes in one, on the same person - because he was always playing tricks on them all the time.

First they moved the person's outhouse back, so when he went into the washroom he would fall in. Then in the morning they took his wagon apart and put it on the roof of his barn.

So as you can see, Halloween was different back then.

P.S. We always went back to undo our trick the next day, and to put things right again.

(Not like some kids of to-day that pull tricks and destroy ).

Joe always said he could see in the dark, that is why we moved the outhouse. But the last laugh was on us, because he had a chamber pail in the corner of the bedroom and didn't have to go out in the dark.

s to the wagon, we brought back our ladder, ropes, wrenches and the lard pail with the nuts andbolts. We got the wagon back off the barn roof and put it back together again.

When we were finished, he invited us into the house for milk and apple pie. He asked us what we planned to do next year that was going to be better than what we had done the last two years. The year before we took his garden gate and laid it down in his hayfield, and repiled his wood pile that had fallen over earlier.

Well the next year we didn't do anything to him. Rosie who lived across the road from him said she would watch him come out and look over his yard to see what we had done. I think he was disappointed because he had baked pie again, and with no sugar in it. It was hard eating those pies without making a face, as we didn't want Joe to have the last laugh on us. (Ruby)