Show A time for an old french shoemaker Snoe maler who boasted that bothin nothing eoula could fri frighten frish liten ten him was put to tile the test best by two youn men one of them thein pretended to bo be load dead and the other going to the shoemaker induced him to sit up with tile the supposed corpse the shoemaker was in a hurry with biti some work woric lie he had promised to have completed next morning so ile he took his tools and leather ani and bean be an working beside tsie the e corpse 0 about twelve at night a L cup of black coffee brought brou plit him to keep hita hija awake he drank it arid and resumed sinned re his work woric about one ocl ocic tile the coffee having exhilarated him ani and forgetting that 11 lie was vas in the presence of 0 death lie be commenced binin sinning a lively tune keeping g time with ill liis hain hammer mer suddenly ud the corpse arose and said in a hullow lov voice when a roan man is in the pic piL sence of death lie ho should not sins sing the shoemaker started then suddenly dealt tile corpse a blow on tile head it liis his hai niner saying when a mans a corpse be should never speak 11 washington post |