Victorian Halloween Greetings Card with Children and Black Cat

The children seem entirely confident that nobody will notice the carving debris scattered across the ground next to the jack-o'-lantern's grinning, gap-toothed corpse. Two impeccably dressed Victorian children are absolutely not concerned that they've just committed this vegetable crime, with the boy in his jaunty striped shirt and red cap pointing dramatically into the middle distance as if directing attention AWAY from the crime scene, while the girl in the yellow dress cradles a suspiciously calm black cat like a tiny furry accomplice. The pumpkin's wide, cheerful grin reads less 'festive decoration' and more 'I have accepted my fate,' which is honestly a more sophisticated emotional response than either child is displaying. Happy Hallowe'en, kids — the apostrophe in the greeting card's title is doing more emotional labor than anyone in this scene.