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"Trading Pumpkins."

Tammy is a young girl who lives with her family on her farm which they call Little Acres Farms which is the biggest farm in the area. Every year they have a festival at their farm that includes apple trees, corn, cows chickens, pigs, and a hay maze they call The Haunted Maze. The only thing that they are missing at their festival is pumpkins which is normally a complaint to their visitors.  Another farm, The Shelby Farm was also doing a hale bale maze but they had lots of good pumpkins to put in theirs. Tammy decided to go over to The Shelby Farm and see the progress on their hay maze to make sure that The Little Acres Farms's hay maze was better.  After getting to Shelby's farm the next morning she was greeted by Mr. Shelby cleaning off one of his pumpkins. After having a little conversation,  Mr. Shelby asked Tammy why she was really there. She started panicking and just grabbed the pumpkin out of his hands, hopped on her bike, and rode away with Mr. Shelby running after her. When she got back to her farm, her parents were enraged and drove her back to the Shelby's farm to give the pumpkin back. Tammy and Mr. Shelby finally made a deal that if Tammy came to help with their maze each day, she would in-turn get some pumpkins. The lesson of this story is that it is better to work together