Young James duly arrived at her home at ‘Middleton’s Entry’ and, whilst eating the offering of a ‘bap and jelly,’ Jean questioned him to make sure that the precious letters, etc. would be safe in his hands and would reach his father intact. It was the time of the resurrectionists or body snatchers and Jean warned him of the “dumbie doctors” who lurked in common stairs, closes and entries, shrouded in large, dark cloaks and provided with pitch plasters, which they suddenly clapped over the mouth and nose of an unwary, night-straggling urchin, while the “dumbie doctor” enveloped his prey in the fearful black mantle, and swiftly hurried it off to the ever-yawning doors of the “dissecting-room”. This was the time of ‘Burke and Hare.’