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Thomas Westwood: Sally

The children were thus left to furnish their own amusement. They shouted and sung, they danced while Hal played for them on his mouth-organ; they ducked for apples in a tub of water; they popped corn and named and roasted chestnuts, and finally cut the cake to see who would get the ring it contained, and then, when it was found that Sally Morris was the lucky one, the loaf was eaten up amid great hilarity. was just in the midst of one about a marvellous witch when little Gladys gave a loud sneeze. "There!" said she, laughing and glancing over her shoulder at the door behind her. "I guess the old witch is peeping in at me," and she nodded her golden head knowingly, as she clasped her fat little hands about her knees and rocked back and forth upon her low stool. "What does she mean?" asked Ned, with a startled air. "Oh, Uncle Ben used to tell us that whenever we sneezed it was because a witch was peeping through the keyhole at us, but he was only in fun," answered Hal.