St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-30

pose, upon turning around, he should
find them all sitting up and looking at
him, SILENTLY Again the squeak. This
time there was no mistake about IL.
1t came from the further end of the
room, and, as it was repeated at inter-
walls of few seconds, he perceived that
it was approaching. He looked steadily
into the gloom that thickcned toward
the distant part of the hall, trying to
pierce it, when suddenly there came
into the edge of space on the floor
that was lighted by shaded gas-burner
three tables away human skull.
From the skull there came another
squeak, and then another, as it slowly
crawled, If one might so phrase it,
across the lighted space on the floor to-
ward the student. 1t proceeded bv little
jerks, utterng now ana again the curl
GUS squeak described, and grinning
with its yellow teeth, one of which was
missing the student noticed, at the EN-
bryo physician, who stood rooted to the
spot until the awful thing got within
two yards of him, and then he gave one
yell and tainted dead away.
The janitor of the medical school, who
slept above, heard the cry, and ran
down stairs to find the student lying on
the floor of the diSSecting room, and
near by a skull with large brown rat
imprisoned in it. How the beast be-
game SO entrapped was mystery; but,
III trying to make its escape. it had
dragged the skull all around the hall,
Squeaking plaintively as it went.
Young SawhOneS, as he bent over the
cadaver disSecting out an important
muscle from the right chest, had got
himself into rather an unpleasant frame
OF mind over the recollection of this
story, and had just come to the conclu
sion that he would spend only five
minutes more over the task, when he
was suddenly felled to the ground by a
terrific blow. He did not wait to see
what had struck him, but made three
Jumps for the door, tumbled down
short flight of stairs and fled for home.
On the corner, just block away, he
found two policemen, who promptly
seized him on suspicion and demanded
what he was running away from. He
explained as well as he could. and it
was arranged that they should go back
with him to the medical school and see
If there were any ghosts or live persons
about who had horight on the premises.
Upon entering the dissecting room,
however. everything was found in statu
quo. save that the right arm of the sub
Ject on which SawbOnes had been oper-
dtiHS Was lying ny Glle SlQ0 OF the
corpse. Evidently the fist had come out
from under the head, where it had been
fastened, and the rigid and once power
full arm had resumed the position from
which it had been forced with an en-
ergy that sufliced to knock young Saw
bones down.
SaWboneS procured bottle of whisky
from private shelf and gave each of
the policemen taste of it. They filled
their tumblers up to the brim with the
raw material and drank it off without as
much as blinking, while the embryo
physician told them similar story he
had once heard about student, who,
while dssecting at night alone, felt
grasp upon his shoulder. and turning
his head saw skeleton band resting
there. He was badly frightened, but
the explanation was simply that one of
the fellows had hung the bones of an
arm and hand, articulated together,
from the gas fixture over the table to
dry. The piece of string fastening I'D
the end toward the hand had been
singed by the match in lighting the gas
and it broke later on, letting the hand
fall upon the Students shoulder. Saw
bones says that he doesn't mean to do
any more dissecting at night himself.