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Sandra Karen Piggott reached out on Facebook and asked us to tell this story.

So here you go, Sandra.

We're calling this one a real stiff.

In the town of Pahusco, Oklahoma in the early 1900s, kids had to make their own fun.

No video games, no playgrounds or parks, no movie theaters.

Not that there was a lot of time set aside for play, but kids always managed to find a way, like the kids

of the town undertaker, who came up with a great prank, a prank never before pulled in the town

or probably anywhere. Those kids sneaked into the parlor of the funeral home, a place that was

usually off limits to them,

as hushed and elegant as the times in the town would allow. There in the corner, the body was

propped up against the wall. These kids had grown up surrounded by death. They weren't afraid of a

body, and they weren't squeamish either. Giggling and

whispering, the kids carefully buckled a pair of roller skates onto the feet of the corpse, and slowly,

slowly coaxed the body, now on wheels out of the parlor and onto the street. Then they chased

the younger, smaller kids,

pushing the corpse from behind,

clattering down the rough sidewalks to screams and tears.

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