25 Name: Part III: Fill in the Blank Directions: Read through the paragraph and fill in the blank with the vocabulary word that best or tense endings (ed, -ing, -s), Not all words will be used On Halloween, the young and old can be seen dressed up as witches, vampires, werewolves, and other magical and supernatural creatures. My sister decided that she wanted to be a witch for Halloween. After donning her black rope, pointy h and smearing her face and transformed from the look a with emerald green makeup, my sister beautiful young woman into the twisted and ugly face of an evil witch. Much to my annoyance at me all night pretending that she was going to turn me she muttered her to being the candy into a frog. When we went Trick-or-Treating, I holder while did the more important job of actually knocking on people's doors. At every house, she would cackle like an old crone and phases like "l will boil you in my cauldron and witch-like vocabulary that she used was frightening to dearie," The small children because it was so accurate. Then we knocked upon this mansion from the 1700s. There was an empty dog house and a leash next to the giant porch. told us that there must have been a dog inside the house. Yet, when we knocked on the door we couldn't hear a dog bark. The door creaked open and a man with beady eyes and thinning hair opened the door Trick or treat l exclaimed. The man's watery "You killed my dog." He croaked. was shocked: l didn't want to be the eyes narrowed. for some dog killer "You're wrong!" l exclaimed a then I went into a long- winded and detailed story explaining why l couldn't have killed his dog. was was growing more frantic and worried a the and trying to stall for time. seconds passed. Then I heard a far away sound. An animal was barking off in the distance. It was truly a moment, indeed "That's my dog! The man cried, "Come body gracefully bounded across the expansive here!" The dog's yard. Yet as the dog jumped into his master's arms, the man, the dog, and the mansion blew away into the air and became nothing more than a wisp of fog rising up from the vacant lot