The day before Halloween, Clara Grace’s mommy practiced the time-honored phrase for procuring candy with her hopeful little girl. Unfortunately, the thought of all those sugary delights seemed to make remembering new vocabulary something of a Herculean challenge.
“Okay, if you want candy you need to knock on the door and say ‘trick or treat.” Her mommy told her.
“”Trickeetree.” Clara Grace repeated.
“Right,” her mommy smiled encouragingly then closed the sunroom doors.
Clara Grace, in her cowgirl hat and bandana, knocked just as she’d been told then eyed the package of smarties in her mommy’s hand hungrily.
“What do you say?” her mommy prompted.
“Candy,” Clara Grace answered.
“No,” her mommy waited.
“More candy,” Clara Grace tried, her eager fingers outstretched.
“Nope,” her mommy said with a sigh.
“More candy, please,” Clara Grace attempted, this time remembering her manners.
Her mommy began slowly, “Well, that’s good, but—“
“More candy, more candy, more candy!” the little girl chanted in an escalating panic.
Her mommy tried one more time. “What do you say to get candy on Halloween?”
Clara Grace looked longingly at the sweets, and then at last a word did come to her. The word which her mommy so often used to persuade her to turn a cherished item over. “Share the candy,” Clara Grace instructed.
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