Genre:

Regular Feature, Short Fiction

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Dissection, Crime, Superstition

    A traveller is believed to have disappeared, and a woodman is suspected. When some bones are found in a blasted tree and identified as the parts of a human skeleton, the woodman is brought to trial. However, he is able to show that the bones had been placed there by a vengeful physician, and had 'for many years decked a corner of his study' (251).