Genre:

Miscellaneous, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

T H, pseud.  [Thomas Hood]

Subjects:

Natural History, Superstition, Natural Economy

    At the wake of a drowned Scottish ferryman, the sheet over the corpse is seen to move. This proves to be due to a 'large pound Crab', which had been secreted in the dead man's clothes 'with some design, perhaps sinister' (140). To the horror of her neighbours, an old 'sea-roamer' captures the crab and makes a meal of it. The illustration captioned 'A Scotch Crab' (142) depicts a crab whose carapace is a Scottish hat.