Those Trick-or-Treat Blues

When I was a kid back in Chicago, trick-or-treating was for Halloween. Here in Iowa, for some reason they do it on some other night somewhere around Halloween, called "Beggar's Night." It varies from town to town, but here in Des Moines, it's tonight.

Anyway, in memory of those chilly (but fun) nights long ago when even in a city the size of Chicago you could more or less trust total strangers not to put Drano in your cookies or razor blades in your apples or kidnap your child, here's a little thing by Rich Kos, aka Svengoolie:

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