- Grandfather Spaulding walks out onto the porch one night and decides it's time for another major ritual of summer: hanging the porch swing.
- Bradbury says here that it's "the third day of summer," which is a strange time shift. But by this time you know to expect some wackiness, right?
- Douglas is there, helps hang the swing, and gets to sit in it first. Grandfather Spaulding sits beside him and they give each other the "ahh, porch swing" smile.
- The evening wears on, with adults sitting on various porches and talking, and kids playing outside.
- Miss Fern and Miss Roberta, the neighborhood spinster sisters, ride by in their Green Machine, a strange electric buggy-like contraption that carries them around town.
- Mr. Jonas, the town junk man, leaves his horse and wagon in the alley and comes down the street chatting with the neighbors on foot.
- The chapter ends with Douglas dozing off on the porch, in "the fern night and the grass night," listening to the adults talk.
- And… you got it… ellipses end the last sentence. As much as ellipses ever end anything, that is.