. St. Nicholas [serial] . ohol,and recited: All around the house in the jet-black night,It stares through the window pane, but the light went out as she whispered slowly, All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp! There followed Eugene Fields ghostly See-in Things, with its scary refrain. But as she ended the last stanza, the lights suddenlyblazed up, real electric lights instead of tallowdips in carrot candlesticks, and the clock strucknine. There was a scurry upstairs for warmcaps and coats. Good nights were said, notonly to the little lady hostess, her tall mother,and the jolly aunt
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ohol,and recited: All around the house in the jet-black night,It stares through the window pane, but the light went out as she whispered slowly, All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp! There followed Eugene Fields ghostly See-in Things, with its scary refrain. But as she ended the last stanza, the lights suddenlyblazed up, real electric lights instead of tallowdips in carrot candlesticks, and the clock strucknine. There was a scurry upstairs for warmcaps and coats. Good nights were said, notonly to the little lady hostess, her tall mother,and the jolly aunt, but to the witch-lady onthe lawn, whose round eyes still glowed. Herblack raffia hair was blowing across her pump-kin face; she could not very well push it aside,for her arms were stretched out stiffly and herback would not bend. It had been a very jolly Halloween; eventhe witch-lady seemed to acknowledge it thenext morning, when her head was carried downcellar and her queer wooden leg bumped itsway up the attic a Halloween procession, little sandy is being hazed, but he has nt found it out vet.
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