I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, [...]
Act IV, Scene 1
A dark Cave. In the middle, a caldron boiling. Thunder. Enter the three Witches.
1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;In the poison’d [...]
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, [...]
Trick or treatSmell my feetGive me something good to eatNot too bigNot too smallJust the size of Montreal
We live in a retirement community. Last year we didn’t get a single kid on our dark street. I still bought some emergency candy yesterday just in case.
I’ve already eaten half of it.