UNIVERSITY QE OREGON MONTHLY
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Voices approaching the graveyard.' I say, Henry, we can’t all go
in there at once. W e’ll ^>e seen, I telf you, and the watch
man will have us up before the cqprt in the morning. I’ll
tell ypn
y^e’U do. Yqu, Thomas, go oyer to the
grave; Henry will stand on top of the wall and I will
get outside at the foot of the wall. Thomas will dig up
the stiff; throw him. ovef to Henry; and Henry will throw
him down tonie, and I’ll make off with him- How’s that?
Thom as and H enry—I t ’s a go,
Richard—All right.
Don’t dig up a stale one.
H alf an hour later.
Henry— (pn the w,all, speaking in subdued tones to Richard— I say,
down there, are you ready, old njap?
Richard—Ky, Ay, sU, let her go. '
Henry-—Here. sb£ comes. (Throws corpse down. As it re^iph^s
the groupd it falls squarely upon poor drunk Michael
O’Rourke, who jumps up greatly frightened and runs
away.)
Richard—{Seeing Michael ru n n ii^ and thinking him the corpse),
Hey, up there, throw rpe down another,
one got
away from me.
Curtain.
—T. R, Samoht.