he asked . `` I played ninepins , '' he answered , `` and lost a few pence . '' `` Did n't you shudder then ? '' `` No such luck , '' said he ; `` I made myself merry . Oh ! if I only knew what it was to shudder ! '' On the third night he sat down again on his bench , and said , in the most desponding way : `` If I could only shudder ! '' When it got late , six big men came in carrying a coffin . Then he cried : `` Ha ! ha ! that 's most likely my little cousin who only died a few days ago '' ; and beckoning with his finger he called out : `` Come , my small cousin , come . '' They placed the coffin on the ground , and he approached it and took off the cover . In it lay a dead man . He felt his face , and it was cold as ice . `` Wait , '' he said `` I 'll heat you up a bit , '' went to the fire , warmed his hand , and laid it on the man 's face , but the dead remained cold . Then he lifted him out , sat down at the fire , laid him on his knee , and rubbed his arms that the blood should circulate again . When that too had no effect it occurred to him that if two people lay together in bed they warmed each other ; so he put him into the bed , covered him up , and lay down beside him ; after a time the corpse became warm and began to move . Then the youth said : `` Now , my little cousin , what would have happened if I had n't warmed you ? '' But the dead man rose up and cried out : `` Now I will strangle you . '' `` What ! ''
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