Show THE DEVIL SHOT A if fast ast young man at pisa rejecting the good offices of sundry monks who threatened him with the devil exacted a promise from a friend that he would not leave his body until it was buried the friend a corsican accordingly watched over the body in in the chapel at the dead of night the ID devil evil stood by his bis sifi side draped in black and red having enor enormous ambus horns and a long tail he was ast ed what he wanted but as he gave no intelligible reply and made advances towards the body the corsican cooly drew a pistol stol and shot the cl clavil evil dead he proved tote to be the convent lb bellman allman the young man was tried and acquitted ab aa there was no law against shooting the devil and the young man persisted that he really believed he was firing at satan |