7. Two Stories Out of the Tall Grass.
People: John Jack Johannes Hummadummaduffer Feed Box Eva Evelyn Evangeline Hummadummaduffer Sky Blue The Harvest Moon A Haystack Cricket Baby Moon Half Moon Silver Moon Doorbells, Chimneys, Cellars The Night Policeman in the Village of Cream Puffs Butter Fingers Three Strikes Cub Ballplayers
The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns
There is an old man with wrinkles like wrinkled leather on his face living among the cornfields on the rolling prairie near the Shampoo river.
His name is John Jack Johannes Hummadummaduffer. His cronies and the people who know him call him Feed Box.
His daughter is a cornfield girl with hair shining the way cornsilk shines when the corn is ripe in the fall time. The tassels of cornsilk hang down and blow in the wind with a rusty dark gold, and they seem to get mixed with her hair. Her name is Eva Evelyn Evangeline Hummadummaduffer. And her chums and the people who know her call her Sky Blue.
The eleventh month, November, comes every year to the corn belt on that rolling prairie. The wagons bring the corn from the fields in the harvest days and the cracks in the corncribs shine with the yellow and gold of the corn.
The harvest moon comes, too. They say it stacks sheaves of the November gold moonshine into gold corn shocks on the sky. So they say.