Show warm corpse too much for nerves of ghouls about one hundred years 5 ears ago a gentleman well known for tile mad pranks in ID wh ich lie he de delighted lighte 1 was wit walking aking past a lonely in midlothian Mid lothian when lie saw raw a well appointed horse and trap standing unattended before tile the gate cu curious rious to know ehnow what tills this might in mean enn lie he crouched in the ditch by t the he w ball all land and waited malted in a few moments two men came out of the carrying in a sack a long object which they propped up on end on the seat scat next to the drivers dr hers then they said something about tools and went bade back quick as thought the watcher pulled down the sal sack emptied its grisly contents into the ditch climbed into the trap got into the sack back and braced himself stiffly into position hardly ila had lie he done so when tile the two tuo men returned and throw threw some tools into the trap after which one got up tip in front and the other on the back seat wild as lie was our a adventurer now begin began to repent of its ills hastiness reflecting that one corpse was as as rood good as another on t the he dissecting table where in those diss questions were by no means always aluais allied suddenly mily the driver turned to ills his mate and in accents 0 of f crawling horror mon man tenile tile the corps warm aral ar ml I 1 the corp had presence of mind enough to monn moan in it a hollow tone were nil all warm irm where I 1 come from there were two to wild ald yells the s springs p rl ng s of the trap bounced furl busly the horse broke into a gallop and when hen he rot got out of his sack tile the gentleman found himself alone heading bonding for edinburgh at a greit great pace the horse trap harness and tools served him film well nell for many years and no one ever claimed them edla burgh scotsman |