![]() Earlier, Ramona, concerned about her father's smoking habit and annoyed that her parents misinterpret her tears, wonders, "Didn't grownups think children worried about anything but jack-'olanterns? Didn't they know children worried about grownups?" Cleary knows, for sure. Quimby, jocular now that he's been called for a job.) As Cleary is no frivolous wishfulfiller, Mother doesn't find the time instead, a sulky Ramona-considerably cheered when three older girls dressed as "Wisepersons" apply mascara to her nose-reconciles herself to appearing in her pajamas and the sheep's tail and headdress that Mother did have time for. ("You know sheep don't wear pajamas," Ramona protests. ![]() ("Are you sure you cut off all the parts with cat spit on them?" asks Ramona at the table.) Worse, there's her mother's new full-time job that leaves her too busy and tired to make Ramona a sheep costume for the Christmas pageant. There is all that pumpkin everyone has to eat after cat Picky-Picky, disdaining her new, cheaper cat food, goes after the jack-o'-lantern. ![]() But Ramona's fantasy about earning a million dollars doing TV commercials only leads to more problems, and the longer her father is out of work the harder it gets. ![]() Ramona wished she had a million dollars so her father would be fun again." As it is, he seems too worried to love her ever since he lost his job. ![]()
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