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Jun 20, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
"A Halloween Story" by Loretta Ellen Brady follows Babette and Anton, the children of a poor mountain lumberjack, on an extraordinary Halloween night that begins with a carved pumpkin rolling away on…
Babette and Anton were the children of a poor lumberjack.
They lived in a small house in the mountains near the forest.
Babette and Anton were happy children and never thought about their poverty.
Their father and mother, however, worried a lot.
"Don't be afraid, Mother," Anton would say.
"Soon I will go to school, and the vegetable garden yields a lot.
When I become a great scholar, you will no longer be poor.
Father will get a team of oxen, and you a satin dress, and Babette will get a beautiful collection of dolls." Mother said, "I think you'd be better off becoming a toy maker.
You're so good at it, my child." Anton made boats from pieces of wood that were just as beautiful as the boats in the store.
He also carved a doll's cradle from pinewood.
He made the doll from a turnip, which he painted so beautifully that it looked like the face of a beautiful girl.
He made her hair from golden corn threads, and her dress, made from young cabbage leaves, was beautifully green.
When this doll began to wither, Anton made a new doll that was always more beautiful than the previous one according to his sister.
Babette had never been to the village and knew nothing of real dolls.
Now it happened one evening during Halloween time that Anton was carving jack-o'-lanterns from pumpkins.
Babette and Anton were the children of a poor lumberjack.
They lived in a small house in the mountains near the forest.
Babette and Anton were happy children and never thought about their poverty.
Their father and mother, however, worried a lot.
"Don't be afraid, Mother," Anton would say.
"Soon I will go to school, and the vegetable garden yields a lot.
When I become a great scholar, you will no longer be poor.
Father will get a team of oxen, and you a satin dress, and Babette will get a beautiful collection of dolls." Mother said, "I think you'd be better off becoming a toy maker.
You're so good at it, my child." Anton made boats from pieces of wood that were just as beautiful as the boats in the store.
He also carved a doll's cradle from pinewood.
He made the doll from a turnip, which he painted so beautifully that it looked like the face of a beautiful girl.
He made her hair from golden corn threads, and her dress, made from young cabbage leaves, was beautifully green.
When this doll began to wither, Anton made a new doll that was always more beautiful than the previous one according to his sister.
Babette had never been to the village and knew nothing of real dolls.
Now it happened one evening during Halloween time that Anton was carving jack-o'-lanterns from pumpkins.
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