<p>The Skeleton asked his friends, "Do you think this is a gathering, a shindig, or a hootenanny?"</p>

<p>The Ghost said, "I don't know, what's difference?"</p>

<p>The Zombie asked, "Arruugh?"</p>

<p>"Well," said said the Skeleton, "a gathering is cheese, and mellow song stylings. A shindig is some dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of punch. And, well, hootenanny is chock full of hoot just a little bit of nanny".</p>

<p>Since they had no cheese, music, or punch but had a fair bit of hoot <em>and</em> nanny (particularly so in the Zombie's case) they all agreed that it was indeed a Hootenanny they found themselves attending.</p>

<p>Illustrated by James Basom Seaman II</p>

Spooky Hootenanny

The Skeleton asked his friends, "Do you think this is a gathering, a shindig, or a hootenanny?" The…

An illustration of a woman taking the lid off an urn with a ghost.

Woman & Urn

An illustration of a woman taking the lid off an urn with a ghost.