Extinguish all the lights in your own
house; your neighbor, as he comes downstairs twenty-five or
thirty times in the next hour, will obligingly tell your
bewildered friends specifically where to go.
When the guest finally learns from the neighborhood policeman
which house on the block is really yours he will discover on your
door a sign reading:
"If you would be my Valentine,
Follow please the bright green line."
Leading from the door is a green cord which the mystified guest
proceeds to follow, according to directions. This cord should
guide the way to the coal cellar of your other neighbor who has
recently purchased an automatic revolver under the delusion that
burglars are operating in the neighborhood. As your bewildered
guest gropes his way about the cellar, it is quite likely that he
will be shot at several times and by the time he emerges (if he
does emerge) he will be quite delightfully full of the informal
spirit of Hallowe'en and ready for anything.
HOW TO MYSTIFY
At this point, your wife, dressed as a witch, should unexpectedly
rush out at him; there is always the delightful possibility that
he will pick up a convenient rock and brain her on the spot--an
event which often adds an unexpected touch of gayety to the
evening's fun. If, however, no such event occurs, the guest
should be blindfolded and led into the house. Once inside he is
conducted upstairs to the attic, where he will find three or four
earlier arrivals also blindfolded.
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