Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Witch, Cat & Pumpkins

An elderly woman dressed in a striped skirt and dramatic red cape crouches down to personally present a mouse to an arched, hissing black cat — because apparently this woman has dedicated her golden years to rodent delivery services. The jack-o'-lanterns blooming on stems like some kind of gourd garden from hell watch the transaction with varying degrees of enthusiasm, which is honestly more emotional range than most people bring to gift-giving. The poem cheerfully promises the recipient 'a nice crawly mouse and best wishes,' a sentence that has never once in history been received well, and yet here we are, a century later, still workshopping it.