The Lonely Donkey

My name is Cora Caulfield, and I'm an older lady now. But when I was a child, my last name was Dubois. That's French, pronounced dew-BWAH. It was almost Halloween of 1953. My friends and I had been so involved in trying to get Mr. Bigg to help Tito Gonzales and his family that we hadn’t even thought about costumes.
Ruby heard a scream one night. She thought it might be a ghost, but her brother George laughed at that idea. OK, we all laughed. But Ruby insisted she’d heard something. Then George heard it too! What did we find? What did we decide to be for Halloween?