* A few days ago there was a query about a Famine Grave near Castletownbere. Well I'll tell ye a story about a happening near that Famine grave. There were these two doctors, and it was the time when some doctorswere experimenting with bodies to find out the real causes of a particular death (besides the obvious causes from Famine). These particular two doctorswere in opposition with each other, and one was trying to be the first to find out from a body that was buried in that ancient graveyard. So one doctor hired two men to dig up the body in the middle of the night and bring it to him so that he could examine tha body. But, cripes man, didn's the second doctor find out what the first doctor was up to, so he in turn hired two men to do the same. So in the middle of the dark night when the hired men of the first doctor crept in past the creaking gate and were starting to dig up the body with their shovels, hadn't the men hired by the second doctor gone in hiding behind some bushes close to the grave about an hour beforehand. It was a real eerie night. All you could hear were the rustling of leaves and moaning of the winds. u--u--h; a--a--a; u--e --a -- u !! The men dug holes beneath the coffin with a crowbar in order to help them lift it up with ropes, and then they were cursing and swearing with the strain of hauling it to the side of the grave. They then began to open the lid of the coffin and pull out the body to show it to the first doctor when, all of a sudden, one of the second doctor's men behind the bushes started wailing: "Don't steal my body". The other man roared: "Don't stir my bones". The two men who were taking the body out of the coffin thought it was voices from the dead, and took to their heels screaming : "A ghost !! a ghost !!", and they never stopped running until they banged open the door of their house. After that, the two men of the second doctor put back the empty coffin, filled in the grave, put a big sheet around the body, and set off weak with the laughing to the second doctor. Amply rewarded they, a few nights later, did justice to a "drop of the crayture" in the nearest suitable house in Beara. * ---- Riobard.