Show I 1 A hard hearted Ile arted leople filial piety finds no place in character it Is no uncommon thing for a son to turn his father when too old for work out of doors and to leave him to perish in tho the cold the superstition that the souls of the dead lead can if they will haunt the living drives their hardened natures to gain by the exercise of cruelty tho the promise of the dying that they will not return to earth As death approaches the dying person Is asked will you como come back or will you not if ho lie replies that ho he will they pull a leather bag over his head bead and smother him if he says he lie will not be he is allowed to dlo ile in peace edinburgh |