Come on, now, be a story-teller.

[Jack Sprat takes his stuffed cat out from under arm.]

Jack Sprat:

My Hallowe’en cat, behold her here,

I like her well though she has but one ear;

To get a bargain she never will try,

She went after butter when butter was high!

[Jack-o’-Lantern, boy with lighted lantern, enters by door or window.]

Jack-o’-Lantern:

I peep in the window, or look in the door,