NOT TO BE SCARED.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 6

NOT TO BE SCARED.

A story is told of an old French shoemaker who boasted that nothing could frighten him. Two young men thought ; they would test him, so one pretended to be dead, and the other induced the shoemaker to Bit up with the supposed corpse. As the shoemaker was in a hurry about some work, he took hia tools and leather and began working beside the corp?e, About midnight a cup of black coffee was brought him to keep him awake. Soon after, the coffee having exhilarated him, forgetting ' he waa in the presence of death, he commenced to sing a lively tune, keeping time with his hammer. Suddenly the corpse arose, and exclaimed in a hollow voice, '* When a man is in the presence of death he should not sing," The shoemaker started, then suddenly dealt the corpse a blow on the head, exclaiming, at the same time, " When a man is dead he should not speak." It was the laet time they tried to scare the shoemaker. ,

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