>>At the end of Mass we said that prayer and, as I caught her to destroy her, I started giggling, and then tried to explain why a tick “prowling abut the pew” will for the rest of my days be emblematic of the “envious sprites” whom Satan unleashes upon us. <<
Did you kill her? Send her to her great “Tick reward”?
Yep. Sho’ did. Actually, since I was going to the place of flowing waters anyway, I consigned her to a watery grave, as I recall.