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From More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, the story, Kikitty Klink.

There was a lonely old woman who got sick and eventually died.

She had no family and no close friends.

So her neighbors got together and dug a grave for her.

They asked the undertaker to make a coffin for her,

and they dressed her up in her best clothes,

and laid her body out in her living room.

When the old woman died, her eyes were wide open, staring at everything and seeing nothing.

This disturbed the neighbors so much that they found two shiny silver coins on her dresser and put them on her eyelids to keep them

closed. As was tradition at the time, the neighbors lit some candles and sat up with her

corpse so that she would not be alone. The next morning, the grave digger arrived to collect her body and take it to the cemetery.

When he was about to start digging the grave, he opened the coffin and peered inside.

When he saw the silver coins covering her eyes, he immediately snatched them and stuffed them into his pocket.

Looking down at the dead woman, the chill ran down his spine.

Her wide open eyes seemed to be staring up at him, watching him as he stole her silver

coins.

It gave him a creepy feeling, so he grabbed a hammer and quickly nailed the lid on a coffin shut.

Then he buried her as fast as he could.

When the grave digger got home, he put the two silver coins in a tin box and shook it, listening to the rattling sound.

Try as he might.

He couldn't forget those eyes staring at him.

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