Show Warm Corpse Too Much for Nerves of Ghouls About one hundred years ears ago a gentleman well weIl known for the mad pranks In which he delighted was walking past a lonely In Midlothian 1 when he saw a well ap pointed horse anti and trap standing Unattended unattended unattended un un- attended before the gate Curious to know what this might mean he crouched In the ditch by the wall waIl walland walland and waited In a n few tew moments two men came out ont of ot the carrying In a asack asack asack sack a long object which they propped up on end on the seat next to the drivers Then they said something about tools and amI went back Quick as thought the watcher pulled down the sack emptied Its grisly contents Into the ditch climbed Into the trap got Into the sack and andI I braced himself stiffly Into position Hardly had he done so when the two men men returned and threw some tools Into the trap after which one got up In front and the other on the I I back seat as he was our adventurer now began to repent of ot othis his hastiness reflecting that one corpse was as good as another on the dissecting table where In those days darB questions were by no means alwa always s 's asked Suddenly the driver turned to his mate and In accents of ot crawling horror gasped mien Man Jamie Janie the corps corp's warm I l The corp had llad presence of ot mind enough to moan In a u hollow tone We Were re all warm where I come from There were two wild yells the springs of ot the trap bounced furiously furiously furiously furi furi- the horse broke Int Into a tt gallop and when he be got out of his sack the gentleman found himself alone headIng headIng heading head- head Ing for tor Edinburgh at a great pace The horse hors trap harness and tools served him well for many years and no one ever er claimed them them them-Edin- Edin Edinburgh burgh Scotsman |