Witches' Brew

Surely you noticed? You cannot have
missed it! Why, the march of the Little People
that's what... On they came, dominating the
dark streets, on their courageous mission
to relieve households of treasury on their
hunt for loot. Not looters, not entirely
simply the determination to put those others
the Big People on notice that there are times
when small as they are they must also be
respected for when they pose their question
the alternative to handing out those obligatory
treats is tricks. And who among us really
looks forward to finding home and hearth
raided, gates knocked askew, eggs or
tomatoes more suitable in frypans and
salads dripping down the sides of our
houses. Besides they've gone to so much
trouble on our behalf to scare us out of what
wits we have left after raising them all
with their much-deliberated choices of
costumery so do we really know who those
incognito personages are? Nothing will
serve to deter their purpose to amass the
spoils of this annual war where witches
soar aloft on brooms, black cats astride as
confidantes, not even unseasonal cold and
unending  rain. Just as well the forethought
to arm ourselves with ample giveaways....