Take the following as truth: In Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter VII), one reads about a boy  cudgelling an ass,  and one goes back over the passage to reassure himself that it does not contain a typographical error for  cuddling. 
Then the following statement: "In the first chapter of The Bride of Lammermoor, a child was killed by an ass." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: False