By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 27, 2012 From the Children’s Friend, October 1944 – By Harvey Peake Jack-o’-lanterns in the yard,Look up at us, blinking hard.Low-hung moon, like evil eye,Creeping through a star-filled sky.Hump-backed witches, everywhere,Riding through the evening air,Ghostly trees that once were green –This is Halloween. Bats and goblins haunt the gloomOf the candle-lighted room.Mirrors showing spooks and ...
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