Six: Body-Snatcher He was all in a flutter—said the Old Harry was in me; that within a day or two there would be another burial in the same yard from which I had taken the subject; that they would pass right by the grave, and that the old sexton would certainly observe that the grave had been disturbed. So he teamed off to the old sexton, put a terrible oath upon him to keep a great secret, and told him what I had done. The sexton then almost regretted that he had pledged himself so strongly. He thought it was a terrible affair.
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 6
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 6
Knowlton Biography, Chapter 6
Six: Body-Snatcher He was all in a flutter—said the Old Harry was in me; that within a day or two there would be another burial in the same yard from which I had taken the subject; that they would pass right by the grave, and that the old sexton would certainly observe that the grave had been disturbed. So he teamed off to the old sexton, put a terrible oath upon him to keep a great secret, and told him what I had done. The sexton then almost regretted that he had pledged himself so strongly. He thought it was a terrible affair.