To the tale their music tells."
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* * * * *

"Sir Knight, wouldst know thy lady's name?
These pin-pricks tell from whence I came."
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* * * * *

"Love wove the snow-flakes in a flower
To deck his lady's secret bower;
With them my love I now confess--
Thy true knight's name I'd have thee guess."
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* * * * *

"Farewell to winter! Now farewell--
We snow-bells rang his dying knell,
And had you but a fine, fine ear,
That could our fairy chiming hear,
Then should you know which friend so true
Has sent this vinter-gjaek to you:
For ever softly do we sing
The name of him whose love we bring."
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* * * * *

"Wouldst find the fair lady Fate chooses for you?
Then search ye this line of wee pin-pricks clear through."
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* * * * *

"For life, as for dinner, chance fixes our mate;
These pin-pricks point you the way to your fate."
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A HALLOWE'EN GHOST HUNT.

"FR THE GOBBLE-UNS'LL GIT YOU, EF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT."

Have the above words from James Whitcomb Riley's poem printed in large
letters over the entrance, the door of which should open with a rattle
of chains and a creaking. Ask each guest to wear a false face and a red
or black domino. When all have assembled in the parlor, where lights are
turned low, have a guide in red with a Mephisto make-up or a witch to
instruct the party before it starts on the "ghost hunt." Not a word must
be spoken no matter what the provocation, not a giggle must be heard, no
one must turn his head or eyes, but look straight ahead. Have goblins in
red with big eyes painted on their cotton masks, holding clubs,
stationed along the route to watch offenders.

Take the party by a circuitous route, upstairs through dark rooms where
open windows and doors make the air cold, up into the attic, lighted
only by burning alcohol and salt, then down stairs, around the porches
and about the yard. If there is an outside cellar-way, take them down
that, otherwise inside the house to the cellar. All along the route have
imitation "spooks" placed in corners and