Send out your boat, speed on tonight.

To bring back spirits though they’ll not stay,

To greet us on mid-summer day;

Blow out your rush-lights, one at a time,

Repeating for each a simple rhyme.

Owl:

Who—Who—Who—o—o?

Cat:

Meow—Meow—Meow—ow.

[American, girl dressed as Goddess of Liberty. Carries horseshoe.]