
By Cynthia Defelice, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)
A bagpiper's trick on a farmer backfires with a ghostly twist.
Willie McPhee, Scotland's finest bagpiper, stumbles upon a dead man in the snow and seizes his fine boots. But when he uses them to outwit a miserly farmer, the tables turn in an unexpected, eerie way. What happens when the original owner wants his boots back? Discover the chilling twist that leaves Willie questioning his choices and facing a spectral surprise. Can he escape the consequences of his actions, or will the past come back to haunt him?
When Willie McPhee, the finest bagpipe player in all of Scotland, goes looking for customers who have a wee bit extra to spend on merriment, he finds more than he bargained for. On a cold, wet, miserable night, Willie trips over a tree trunk in the dark. Peering closer, he sees that the fallen tree isn’t a tree at all, but a man, a DEAD man, lying stone cold frozen in the snow. “A-A-A-aaaaah!” screams Willie. But then he notices that the body is wearing some fine-looking boots.A poor man is a practical man, and so soon Willie has a shiny new pair of boots. He puts them to good use tricking a stingy farmer – and then, in a startling twist, the original owner
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