After unconsciously digging up a skull with an Indian tomahawk in it, this short story's title character kicks it, drawing the attention of a man with red eyes.
After unconsciously digging up a skull with an Indian tomahawk in it, this short story's title character kicks it, drawing the attention of a man with red eyes. The protagonist's wife goes to the land formerly owned by Deacon Peabody carrying her silver teapot and spoons, and disappears; her husband later finds her heart and liver tied up in her apron. Afterwards, the title character refuses to be a slave trader, but agrees to open a broker's shop in Boston for a great black man, who whisks him away in response to his outburst "the devil take me if I have made a farthing!" Old Scratch offers the other title character Captain Kidd's gold in exchange for his soul in, FTP, what short story by Washington Irving?
After unconsciously digging up a skull with an Indian tomahawk in it, this short story's title character kicks it, drawing the attention of a man with red eyes.
“The {Devil and Tom Walker}”