This incident has only a slight connection with the story that follows, but I think it provides the right sort of tone and setting. I carry this, he replied, so that fools do not stumble against me in the dark. Old man, I asked, if you cannot see, why do you carry a lantern? I found, to my surprise, that the man was blind. I was walking alone through a village at night when I met an old man carrying a lantern. It may give you some idea of rural humor if I begin this tale with an anecdote that concerns me. DAVID WRIGHT (Librarian, Central Library, Seattle): (Reading) "A Face in the Night" by Ruskin Bond. We asked him to read us a story worthy of Halloween Eve, and he chose a tale by an Indian writer named Ruskin Bond. And David Wright spends every other Monday at the library reading creepy, mysterious and treacherous tales to adults at lunchtime, from 12:05 to 12:50, just long enough to eat, get terrified, and make it back to the office. He's a librarian at Seattle's Central Library. Now, there are few people who enjoy scaring grownups more than David Wright.
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