| Article: | A Christmas Tale: Part V -- Enter the Folk Singer & the Waif Thank God for slackers. I found another ledger, abandoned with other textbooks in the trash. It was marked History/Algebra. And only three pages of it were filled in. I was jubilant in my find. Then I saw the ominous man again. I woke Wilfred, a little creeped out. I learned that he had first seen him in 1914. "He will not go away," he wrote. "Dismiss him." And Everet, summoned from sleep, leaned in and added, "He has no power in himself; he can't hurt you, only change your mind." |