Tuba Fish.

Son, there's a reason I brought you out here today.

Yeah?

I'm not getting any younger and so I think it's time I passed onto you a cherished family heirloom. Our family's beautiful 1892 brass Tuba. Your great-grandfather used it to play Mussorgsky's 'La Grande Nouvelle' to Alfonso XIII on New Year's Eve 1900. Yes, this fine instrument carries with it a lot of history... just remember to water it twice a day.

William James Mercer : Halloween.

Halloween yesterday. Not a single 'trick-or-treater' came knocking at my door. Which kind of kills the misconception that children these days have very short attention spans, as they must have remembered the shock of a yacht battery wired up to my doorbell last year...