The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1824-06-17
.isfettaitsous ArticIes.

A couniryman passing Q burial ground near
Cupsf, one nignt some weeks age observed
two or three men inside the wall, and suspect.
ing them TO be dis,ufbers OF ihe dead chal.
lenged them as he epprosched with their un-
hailowsd put2oae. One OF tbem made 40 an.
swe' in an undc, tone that they were moi rec.
sutoc,iop men but stnugglefs, aud that II he
would ventu' C over the wall, they would make
II worth his while TO keep ,hei. secret. The
man did not scruplo 10 join them, and wao
conducted TO O lit,le building adjoining the
seeple where they and their stores wero do.
posted here by the gimme ing OF he star
light discove ed . well flied bottle, with glss.
ses, and Other good cheer with which ihry
told him to mako free tili thsie return. The
iDvi alton was too agreeable 20 be declined
but John had hardly begun 10 make aprope'
use of his opportunities, when tho door
was somewhat hastily ahut, and the light
which was to guide his operations obsca, ed
The place, besides, was reckone6 unlucky,
being that SO, apart tor tho oeXton's tools ! so
that ne poor fellow thought himself in much
distress. His alarm was augmented on hear.
tho strangers engaged in whispe ing con.
vctsation without, OF which he imagined him
self the subject. The idea tha, they were
res,ur rec,ion men again occurred to his mind
and he Ind often been told that TO those par
soos q living subjec, was as acceptable os
dead me He Imagined he head them say
distinctly, Pshaw, won't Il DO much better
TO kill a fellow that is frosh, than dig up one
thai is s,inkiug % And his terror, as may
easily DO conceived, was now at its climax-
he whined most piteouS'y, and oHe ed every
thing he was worth as the price OF his ransom
Ent, eaiics seemed for u while TO be no avail,
but one of the men at last app cached tho
door, and told him in low voice 10 be silent
that having got subject which would sui,
them, they had resolved that he should be
spave1 on condition that he carried The body
10 "a place in the woods, where they had gig
in waiting for it. This was glad tidings 10
tho count yman SO issuing forth form hIs
place of imprisonment; he ben, bis back vii.
Engly TO receive the odions burden The
load was coon adjusted, and he sallied forth
from tho burial ground, be veen Two sturdy
vampires. who were 10 be ms guides, and who
watched him with the most wol6sh vigilance
Tho road was long end dark--witb much
swesting, however, he at iss, arrived at the
place where no had calculated on being 70.
lieved. The gig, howesef was moi to be seen,
bus the men who were some distance behind,
told him to lay down his bur,hen, and unite
klhe sack TO SEQ that oil was right, John tufh
Ned down the detested heap, and from his
kterror Of the fellows, having opened (though
Nth much rcluctsnee) was horribly ss,onish
/ ed when the Imagined corpse started up, and
Rusis,ed on being carried hsifa mile farther, 20
lil.le ale house IN q corner OF the wood.
hunders,ruck and aghast Of this unexpected
|YeouisI,ion, John would willingly have ctept
)u,o sosil she'll, to escape The extraordinary
(ssrsuget but as this was impossible, snd as
Ashc fur &c and underwood p'cveD,ed speedy
flieh ht, his next resource was desperate offer
Of battle, which however the scepue declined,
vanishing among the trees with hcer'y and
horrible laugh. John scrambled home the
the hes, way he could, flied lest he should
stumble ovet living eorpse in every ditch.
Nor did he learn, till some time after (wbeo
he only gathered il from the banter OF his
counrsdes0 that in The whole affair, he bad
only been made the sport Of three fellow, who
had bsen employed to protect the church yard,
sfter recent fsnsral, from The jsckslls Of the