Though the weather's bad or pleasant,
You're invited to be present
At Miss Gladys Fulton's home
On Hallowe'en. Be sure to come.
Please accept, and don't decline;
Come at seven and stay till nine.
Needless to say these cards caused great excitement among the favored ones who received them.
Boys and girls chattered like magpies until the school-bell rang, and then it was very hard to turn their attention to lessons.
But Marjorie was trying in earnest to be good in school, and not get into mischief, so she resolutely put her card away in her desk, and studied diligently at her lessons.
Indeed, so well did she study that her lesson was learned before it was time to recite, and she had a few moments' leisure.
She took out her pretty card to admire it further, and she scrutinized closely the funny old witch riding on a broomstick, after the approved habit of witches.
The witch wore a high-peaked black hat, and her nose and chin were long and pointed.
Suddenly the impulse seized Marjorie to make for herself a witch's hat.
She took from her desk a sheet of foolscap paper. But she thought a white hat would be absurd for a witch. It must be black. How to make the paper black was the question, but her ingenuity soon suggested a way.
She took her slate sponge, and dipping it in the ink, smeared it over the white paper.