Related Clues:

• Small firecracker
• Short narrative
• Speaker's aid
• Speech enlivener
• Opening of many a speech
• Brief incident
• "Billy Budd," for one
• Short newspaper item
• Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' e.g.
• Type of firework
• Stand-up bit
• Short, amusing story
• "Animal Farm," for one
• Short work of fiction
• In Harry Potter books, nonmagical offspring of wizard parents