Vintage Halloween Greeting Card: Farmyard Prank Cow Jack-o-Lanterns

This card radiates pure festive anarchy: an older woman in a white bonnet and red dress has knocked over her milk bucket mid-sprint, fleeing from a cow whose head has been replaced by a grinning jack-o-lantern — which, if you read the caption 'What the boys did to the cow,' suggests that local youth have committed some kind of agricultural crime. A second, equally smug pumpkin head floats above the fence beside the cow, because apparently one gourd-headed bovine wasn't enough to achieve maximum psychological damage. The crescent moon hangs in the background like a silent accomplice, the bare trees loom ominously, and absolutely nobody involved — not the pumpkins, not the cow, not whoever designed this card — appears to feel even slightly bad about any of it.