Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Helps and hints for Hallowe'en

If you ever chance to wander, Late on Hallowe’en; If you ever chance to wander, Many sights are seen. Witches are so very funny, In their cap and gown; Just hear our canes go rap-a-tap, The witches are in town.

Chapters

1. SCENE I

If you ever chance to wander, Late on Hallowe’en; If you ever chance to wander, Many sights are seen. Witches are so very funny, In their cap and gown; Just hear our canes go ra...

2. SCENE II

3. SCENE III

[_Same as Scene I. Many children are seen hurrying along through the woods with dinner pails, the four who were kept after school coming in last, and finally left alone on the s...

4. SCENE IV

[_Same as Scene III. Two boys and two girls still remain on stage in the statue-like positions. Three ships are next shown on a sheet, and led by a trumpeter, Columbus and his S...

5. SCENE I

On Hallowe’en Night, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, The Witches and Brownies, Ho, Ho. Ho, Ho; The Owls and the Cats. Ho. Ho. Ho, Ho, On Hallowe’en Night, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho.

6. SCENE II

The characters now are wax-like figures, very still, sitting in a row. As Folly touches one with a wand he rises and goes through the stunt suggested by the Witches spell in the...

7. SCENE I

By my side old Witch please stay, And we’ll enact a little play; Pomona, goddess of fruits, I’ll call, And she will entertain us all. Vertumnus, too, I’ll conjure here, The god...

8. SCENE II

I’m the Witch of Hallowe’en, Many curious sights I’ve seen. I’m also a gipsy as you see, I’ll tell your fortune With leaves of tea. You must wear disguise, you understand, If yo...

9. SCENE III

VERTUMNUS: Fair Pomona, I can not help but sing today; I come to tell you of all the beauties of spring. If you will come with me to the fields you will see new life returning e...