'Indeed I wasn't,' said Lawrence; 'don't you know that nothing in the world ever put fear on me.'
'I'll bet again with you that you haven't the courage to watch to-night again,' says Carrol.
'I would make that bet with you,' said Lawrence, 'but that there is a night's sleep wanting to me. Go yourself to-night.'
'I wouldn't go to the graveyard to-night if I were to get the riches of the world,' says Carrol.
'Unless you go your mother's body will be gone in the morning,' says Lawrence.
'If only you watch to-night and to-morrow night, I never will ask of you to do a turn of work as long as you will be alive,' said Carrol, 'but I think there is fear on you.'
'To show you that there's no fear on me,' said Lawrence, 'I will watch.'
He went to sleep, and when the evening came he rose up, put on his sword, and went to the graveyard. He sat on a tombstone near his mother's grave. About the middle of the night he heard a great sound coming. A big black thing came as far as the grave and began rooting up the clay. Lawrence drew back his sword, and with one blow he made two halves of the big black thing, and with the second blow he made two halves of each half, and he saw it no more.
Lawrence went home in the morning, and Carrol asked him did he see anything.
'I did,' said Lawrence, 'and only that I was there my mother's body would be gone.'