The Pumpkin Glory By William Dean Howells Listen to the story The Pumpkin Glory The papa had told the story so often that the children knew just exactly what to expect the moment he began. They all knew it as well as he knew it himself, and they could keep him from making mistakes or forgetting. Sometimes he would go wrong on purpose or would pretend to forget, and then they had a perfect right to pound him till he quit it. He usually quits pretty soon. The children liked it because it was very exciting, and at the same time, it had no moral, so when it was all over, they could feel that they had not been excited just for the moral. The…