How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 204
CHAPTER XVII. … ALL-HALLOW-EVE. A D I A N T and beautiful October, whosechanging color heralds the approach of win-ter, gives us our first autumn holiday, ifHalloween can now be called a holiday. Before the Christian era, in the days ofthe ancient Celts and their priests, theDruids, the eve of the first of…