Long ago a man used to be out very late at night. This night he stayed out until it was half past one. When he was coming home it was a very bright night and the moon was shining. When he came near the Bedford cross he saw a man dressed in black coming towards him. When the man that was dressed in black came near him he asked him what time was it. The answer he got was "It is time for the living to be at rest and for the dead to wander". This gave the man a fright and when he came a little farther he could not go home at all because he could not see where he was going. When he would try to walk he would go from side to side of the road so that he was all scraped