"Now we've done it" said Harold, "we've spent the whole night and we still don't have a test. We'll never be jack-o-lanterns. Oh, Burnham, what are we going to do"?

Two very sad pumpkins joined the throng around the Great Pumpkin. One by one the Great Pumpkin boomed out the assignments and all the pumpkins were happy with what they were to do, but no one was chosen to be a jack-o-lantern. Perhaps, this year there would be no jack-o-lanterns.

There were fewer and fewer left. Harold and Burnham felt lower and lower, how could they get an assignment if they hadn't even found a test to pass?

Finally the Great Pumpkin said, "Harold and Burnham you're the last two, did you find a test worthy of becoming jack-o-lanterns"

A dewdrop formed on Burnham's pumpkin shell that looked suspiciously like a tear as he quietly said,