The Fiery Page boy.
202 years ago there was a page boy at Girsby Hall, captured by robbers. They made him swear to let them rob the Hall, and told him that if he spoke to anyone about it they would skin him alive. So having sworn to let them in, and after being threatened again, they let him go, and he kept his promise to let the men into the Hall. But then called for help. The men were all secured after they had entered the Hall, tried and punished, and it was supposed that nothing more would happen, though for a time the page boy was guarded, (or at least he was not allowed to go anywhere, lest the men should get hold of him). But at last they did, and they carried out their promise and skinned him alive. For many years after a big ball of fire rushed screaming across the road where his body was found completely skinned.
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