A stroke of genius strikes Mother Rigby as she constructs a makeshift scarecrow.

Why not give this pumpkin-headed creation life?

Nathaniel Hawthorne, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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tales audiobooks dot com and click the appropriate button and And now Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dicken, cried Mother Rigby.

A coal for my pipe!

The pipe was in the old dame's mouth when she said these words.

She had thrust it there after filling it with tobacco, but without stooping to light it at

the hearth, where indeed there was no appearance of a fire having been kindled that morning.

Forthwith, however, as soon as the order was given, there was an intense red glow out of the

bowl of the pipe, and a whiff of smoke came from Mother Rigby's lips.

Whence the coal came, and how brought thither by an invisible hand, I have never been able to

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