They came in initially small groups, then droves as the hour took hold. Throngs of screeching, hooting little creatures with wild eyes and jabbering mouths that knew nothing except to repeat the same haunting expression over and over in a broken facsimile of the english language.

The seed of a specific type of Theobroma could be crushed into a paste and combined with household ingredients to make a hardened elixir that can assage their advances when meted out in small miser quantities.

But they return each year to bargain once more